[datatable-help] Slides for useR! data.table tutorial

[Matt Dowle]

Hi Michael,

It happens automatically.  See NEWS for v1.9.2 :

o  New optimization: GForce. Rather than grouping the data, the group locations are passed into
      grouped versions of sum and mean (gsum and gmean) which then compute the result for all groups
      in a single sequential pass through the column for cache efficiency. Further, since the g*
      function is called just once, we don't need to find ways to speed up calling sum or mean
      repetitively for each group. Plan is to add gmin, gmax, gsd, gprod, gwhich.min and gwhich.max.
      Examples where GForce applies now :
        DT[,sum(x,na.rm=),by=...]                       # yes
        DT[,list(sum(x,na.rm=),mean(y,na.rm=)),by=...]  # yes
        DT[,lapply(.SD,sum,na.rm=),by=...]              # yes
        DT[,list(sum(x),min(y)),by=...]                 # no. gmin not yet available, only sum and mean so far.
      GForce is a level 2 optimization. To turn it off: options(datatable.optimize=1)
      Reminder: to see the optimizations and other info, set verbose=TRUE

Matt

On 12/06/14 03:44, Michael Smith wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> You mention GForce in your slides. Is this something that happens behind
> the scenes, or is it something the user should take care of? (I couldn't
> find it in the current docs.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> M
>
>
>
> On 06/12/2014 04:22 AM, Matt Dowle wrote:
>> Draft slides are now online for the 3 hour data.table tutorial at useR!
>> on Monday 30 June.
>>
>>      user2014.stat.ucla.edu/#tutorials
>>
>> Is there something fundamental that you wished had been explained in a
>> tutorial like this?  If so, please let me know.
>>
>>
>> I'm doing another of these long tutorials, jointly with Arun, in London
>> on Monday 15th September :
>>
>>      http://www.earl-conference.com/Speakers/Workshop1_DataTable.html
>>
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>
>>
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