DataCamp hardware
For many problems your time is the expensive part. If having a faster computer makes you more productive, it can be cost effective to buy one. However, before you splash out on new toys for yourself, your boss/partner may want to see some numbers to justify the expense. Measuring the performance of your computer is called benchmarking, and you can do that with the benchmarkme
package.
This exercise is part of the course
Writing Efficient R Code
Exercise instructions
After you've loaded the benchmarkme
package:
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Load the benchmarkme package
library(___)
# Assign the variable ram to the amount of RAM on this machine
ram <- ___
ram
# Assign the variable cpu to the cpu specs
cpu <- ___
cpu