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Type: Package
Title: A class for vectors of 1-bit booleans
Version: 1.1-12
Date: 2012-01-17
Author: Jens Oehlschlägel <Jens.Oehlschlaegel@truecluster.com>
Maintainer: Jens Oehlschlägel <Jens.Oehlschlaegel@truecluster.com>
Depends: R (>= 2.9.2)
Description: 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).
License: GPL-2
LazyLoad: yes
ByteCompile: yes
Encoding: latin1
URL: http://ff.r-forge.r-project.org/
Packaged: 2014-04-08 21:51:43 UTC; jens
NeedsCompilation: yes
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2014-04-09 09:54:10
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