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Timing hash functions with the bench package

May 21, 2019 by Colin Gillespie

This blog post has two goals Investigate the bench package for timing R functions Consequently explore the different algorithms in the digest package using bench What is digest? The digest package provides a hash function to summarise R objects. Standard hashes are available, such as md5, crc32, sha-1, and sha-256. The key function in the

Timing in R

July 2, 2018November 20, 2017 by jumpingrivers

Nested timings 1) Sys.time() 2) The tictoc package Comparing functions 1) system.time() 2) The microbenchmark package Conclusion As time goes on, your R scripts are probably getting longer and more complicated, right? Timing parts of your script could save you precious time when re-running code over and over again. Today I’m going to go through