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