Book DescriptionIt'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.
Book Details | |
Publisher: | O'Reilly Media |
By: | Q. Ethan McCallum, Stephen Weston |
ISBN: | 978-1-44930-992-3 |
Year: | 2011 |
Pages: | 126 |
Language: | English |
File size: | 6 MB |
File format: | PDF |