Byte compiling

[Colin Gillespie]

Have you tried adding

ByteCompile: true

to the DESCRIPTION file? In my poweRlaw package, this give a four times speed-up.

I hear there's an excellent book on efficient R programming you can consult ;)

[Richard Cotton]

Nice tip.

It doesn't work for assertive, since that package now doesn't contain any of its own content. I've had a play with using byte compilation in assertive.base. For most of the simpler functions, there's no performance difference, but a few like is2 showed around ~20% speedup. Which is worth it for 1 extra line of code.

[Richard Cotton]

using this in assertive.* pkgs instead