[R] Profiler for R ? (HFWUtils package)

[Uwe Ligges]

or just see

?Rprof

and

?Rprofmem


Uwe Ligges


On 06.07.2010 01:21, Jim Callahan wrote:
>> Message: 21
>> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 02:26:29 -0400
>> From: Ralf B<ralf.bierig at gmail.com>
>> To: "r-help at r-project.org"<r-help at r-project.org>
>> Subject: [R] Profiler for R ?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there such a thing as a profiler for R that informs about a) how
>> much processing time is used by particular functions and commands and
>> b) how much memory is used for creating how many objects (or types of
>> data structures)?
>
> Haven't tried it; but stumbled across "Profiling()" function in the
> HFWUtils package.
> Starting at bottom of page 29-30 of HFWUtils package user manual:
>
> profiling
> plots tree of execution times
>
> Description
> determines how much time a function its and sub-functions (and
> sub-functions thereof etc) take to run (‘profiling’). Also draws
> picture of this using the interrelations of functions.
>
>
> HTH,
> Jim Callahan
> Orlando, FL
>
>
> In a way I am looking for something similar to the
>> java profiler (which is started by command line and provides profiling
>> information collected from the run of a particular program). Is there
>> such a tool through the R command line or RGUI ? Are there profilers
>> available for the Eclipse StatET or though another package or
>> extension?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ralf
>
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