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Parallel R: Data Analysis in the Distributed World

By Stephen Weston , Q. Ethan McCallum

Book information

Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Year
2011
ISBN
978-1-44930-992-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6008794 bytes)
Pages
126\122
Time added
2016-06-29 18:00:00

Description

It's tough to argue with R as a high-quality, cross-platform, open source statistical software product - unless you're in the business of crunching Big Data. This concise book introduces you to several strategies for using R to analyze large datasets. You'll learn the basics of Snow, Multicore, Parallel, and some Hadoop-related tools, including how to find them, how to use them, when they work well, and when they don't. With these packages, you can overcome R's single-threaded nature by spreading work across multiple CPUs, or offloading work to multiple machines to address R's memory barrier.

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