Bring the power of Julia into R through XRJulia package
R is the software for statistics. It is easy to use and have great flexibility. The most important of all, it has a lot of packages which greatly expand the power of R. But R sometimes suffer from low performance issues. Julia is a new programming language whose main goal is to let high performance scientific computing becomes easy. In this series of blogs, I will talk about how to use XRJulia package to bring the high performance of Julia into the great ecosystem of R, which combines the best of the two worlds. I will first talk about some general recipes to speed up R code, and then talk about why choose Julia and XRJulia. And the introduction to R and XRJulia will be in the second blog of this series. General Advice on speeding up your R script When you have some performance issue with your R script, there are several things you can do: Profile your code, identify the bottleneck for your script, and then try to alleviate it. For example, if the bottleneck of your code is a dee