bit: A class for vectors of 1-bit booleans
bitmapped vectors of booleans (no NAs),
coercion from and to logicals, integers and integer subscripts;
fast boolean operators and fast summary statistics.
With 'bit' vectors you can store true binary booleans {FALSE,TRUE} at the
expense of 1 bit only, on a 32 bit architecture this means factor 32 less
RAM and ~ factor 32 more speed on boolean operations. Due to overhead of
R calls, actual speed gain depends on the size of the vector: expect gains
for vectors of size > 10000 elements. Even for one-time boolean operations
it can pay-off to convert to bit, the pay-off is obvious, when such
components are used more than once.
Reading from and writing to bit is approximately as fast as accessing
standard logicals - mostly due to R's time for memory allocation. The package
allows to work with pre-allocated memory for return values by calling .Call()
directly: when evaluating the speed of C-access with pre-allocated vector
memory, coping from bit to logical requires only 70% of the time for copying
from logical to logical; and copying from logical to bit comes at a
performance penalty of 150%. the package now contains further classes for
representing logical selections: 'bitwhich' for very skewed selections and
'ri' for selecting ranges of values for chunked processing. All three index
classes can be used for subsetting 'ff' objects (ff-2.1-0 and higher).
Version: |
1.1-12 |
Depends: |
R (≥ 2.9.2) |
Published: |
2014-04-09 |
Author: |
Jens Oehlschlägel |
Maintainer: |
Jens Oehlschlägel <Jens.Oehlschlaegel at truecluster.com> |
License: |
GPL-2 |
URL: |
http://ff.r-forge.r-project.org/ |
NeedsCompilation: |
yes |
Materials: |
NEWS |
CRAN checks: |
bit results |
Downloads:
Reverse dependencies:
Reverse depends: |
bit64, ff, NEff, tabplot, TOC |
Reverse imports: |
BGData, biogram, Cyclops, ETLUtils, ffbase, FLightR, marinespeed, MSBVAR, observer, SpaDES.tools, Stack |
Reverse suggests: |
bamlss, checkmate, symDMatrix |
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