Efficient R programming Book Club
Welcome
Pace
Format
1
Introduction
Who is this for?
Who are we?
Types of efficiency
Why is R different?
Why efficiency?
General efficiency skills
Benchmarking
Benchmarking: microbenchmark
Benchmarking: bench
Profiling
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2
Efficient set-up
System monitoring
Updating R & Packages
R Startup
RStudio Setup
WTF is BLAS?
Other R Intepreters
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3
Efficient programming
SLIDE 1
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4
Efficient workflow
Top tips for efficient workflow
Tip 1: Start with pen and paper
Tip 2: Chunk the work
Tip 3: Package selection
Tip 4: Document throughout
Tip 5: Publishing with reproducibility
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5
Efficient input/output
What?
Overview
General principle in reproducible data management
Using
rio
Plain text formats (1)
Plain text formats (2)
Binary formats (1)
Binary formats (2)
Binary formats (3)
More on I/O with
arrow
(1)
More on I/O with
arrow
(2)
More on I/O with
arrow
(3)
Getting data (1)
Getting data (2)
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6
Efficient data carpentry
Why data carpentry?
The tidyverse: Core
The tidyverse: Readers
The tidyverse: Others
Debugging
Formatters
The tidyverse: Others 2
Behind the scenes
The tidyverse: Superseded?
janitor
data.table
targets
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7
Efficient optimisation
SLIDE 1
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8
Efficient hardware
What is a byte?
Understanding Computer Sizes
The Motherboard
The CPU
CPUs as a Coffee Shop
The CPU Deep Dive
RAM
The RAM Deep Dive
Storage
The HDD Deep Dive
The SSD Deep Dive
The Storage Deep Dive
32 and 64-bit Systems
Networking
How Not to Worry
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9
Efficient collaboration
SLIDE 1
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10
Efficient learning
R help
help dot search
browseVignettes
help
R source code
swirl & learnr
R journals, etc
Reprexes & online help
Book clubs!
Teach
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Efficient R programming Book Club
RStudio Setup
usethis::use_blank_slate()
to auto-set useful options
Ctrl-Alt+B
: Run to current line
Use projects