Profiling and benchmarking. “Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered.”— Donald Knuth.
Optimising code to make it run faster is an iterative process: Find the biggest bottleneck (the slowest part of your code).Try to eliminate it (you may not succeed but that’s ok).Repeat until your code is “fast enough.” This sounds easy, but it’s not. Even experienced programmers have a hard time identifying bottlenecks in their code. Instead of relying on your intuition, you should profile your code: use realistic inputs and measure the run-time of each individual operation.
Untitled. A Community Site for R – Sponsored by Revolution Analytics. Home Page. Finding and removing duplicate records. Regular Expressions with grep, regexp and sub in the R Language. The R Project for Statistical Computing provides seven regular expression functions in its base package.
The R documentation claims that the default flavor implements POSIX extended regular expressions. That is not correct. In R 2.10.0 and later, the default regex engine is a modified version of Ville Laurikari's TRE engine. It mimics POSIX but deviates from the standard in many subtle and not-so-subtle ways. What this website says about POSIX ERE does not (necessarily) apply to R.
Older versions of R used the GNU library to implement both POSIX BRE and ERE. The best way to use regular expressions with R is to pass the perl=TRUE parameter. All the functions use case sensitive matching by default. Finding Regex Matches in String Vectors The grep function takes your regex as the first argument, and the input vector as the second argument.
> grepl("a+", c("abc", "def", "cba a", "aa"), perl=TRUE) [1] TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE Replacing Regex Matches in String Vectors Make a Donation. R Programming/Text Processing. This page includes all the material you need to deal with strings in R.
The section on regular expressions may be useful to understand the rest of the page, even if it is not necessary if you only need to perform some simple tasks. This page may be useful to : perform statistical text analysis.collect data from an unformatted text file.deal with character variables. In this page, we learn how to read a text file and how to use R functions for characters.
There are two kind of function for characters, simple functions and regular expressions. Help.search(keyword = "character", package = "base") However, their name and their syntax is not intuitive to all users. Keywords : text mining, natural language processingSee CRAN Task view on Natural Language Processing[2]See also the following packages tm, tau, languageR, scrapeR. Reading and writing text files[edit] R can read any text file using readLines() or scan(). Character encoding[edit] Example[edit] The following example was run under Windows. Statistical Analysis with Open-Source R and RStudio on Amazon EMR. Running R on AWS - AWS Big Data Blog. Untitled. Type the email address or phone number of the account you want to sign in with.
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This question has been addressed over at StackOverflow and it turns out there are many different approaches to completing this task. Since I encounter this situation relatively frequently, I wanted my own S3 method for as.data.frame that takes a list as its parameter. I should note that it only works with atomic vectors (i.e. logical, integer, numeric, complex, character and raw). If any one of the elements in the list are of some other class type, the function will call NextMethod.
Running R on AWS - AWS Big Data Blog. Running R on AWS - AWS Big Data Blog. SparkR on EC2 · amplab-extras/SparkR-pkg Wiki. This page describes steps to use SparkR on EC2.
Cluster launch First, launch an EC2 cluster using Spark's EC2 scripts. SparkR (R on Spark) - Spark 1.6.0 Documentation. SparkR is an R package that provides a light-weight frontend to use Apache Spark from R.
In Spark 1.6.0, SparkR provides a distributed data frame implementation that supports operations like selection, filtering, aggregation etc.