Video how-to: Speed up R with C++ and Rcpp
The Rcpp package can help you combine the best of both programming languages. Find out how.
- 07 August, 2015 23:36
Sometimes when using R, you'll want more speed than base R can offer. That's why some advanced R users combine R and C++ -- and there's a package that makes it easy for you do so, too.
The following video by Jared Lander shows how you can use the Rcpp package to take advantage of C++ classes and R functions.
Watch the Using Rcpp Syntactic Sugar video.
This video excerpt is from Advanced R LiveLessons: Tools for Greater Productivity and Machine Learning published by Pearson/Addison-Wesley Professional.