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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

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Exercise instructions

After you've loaded the benchmarkme package:

  • Obtain the amount of RAM on this machine using get_ram().
  • Obtain the CPU specifications using get_cpu().

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
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