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Optimizing R Code with Rcpp

Intermediate

Updated 12/2024

Use C++ to dramatically boost the performance of your R code.

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Course Description

R is a great language for data science, but sometimes the code can be slow to run. Combining the comfort of R with the speed of a compiled language is a great way to reclaim the performance your code deserves. C++ is a modern, high performance language that is simple enough to learn in the context of accelerating R code. With the help of the Rcpp package, C++ integrates very neatly with R. You will learn how to create and manipulate typical R objects (vectors and lists), and write your own C++ functions to dramatically boost the performance of your R code.

Prerequisites

Introduction to Writing Functions in R

1

Introduction

Welcome to the course

Benchmarking with microbenchmark

Simple C++ Expressions with evalCpp

Conversion between numbers using cast

Inline functions with cppFunction

First function

Euclidean distance from 0

Print to the console

Error messages

2

Functions and Control Flow

C++ functions belong to C++ files

What happens when you compile this C++ file

Boiler plate

Writing functions in C++

First function - again

Exported and unexported functions

R code in C++ files

if and if/else

Calculating square roots with a for loop

Breaking out of a for loop

While loops

Calculating square roots with a while loop

Do it again: do-while loop

3

Vector classes

Rcpp classes and vectors

First and last values of a vector

Indexing a vector

Sum of double vector

Creating vectors

Sequence of integers

Create vector with given values

Vector cloning

Weighted mean

Weighted mean (C++ version)

Handling of missing values

Vectors from the STL

Don't change the size of Rcpp vectors

STL vectors

4

Case Studies

Random number generation

Scalar random number generation

Sampling from a mixture of distributions (I)

Sampling from a mixture of distributions (II)

Rolling operations

Rolling means

Rolling means (in C++)

Last observation carried forward

Mean carried forward

Auto regressive model

Simulate AR(p) model

Simulate MA(q) model

ARMA (p, q) model

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