kazaam: Tools for Tall Distributed Matrices

Many data science problems reduce to operations on very tall, skinny matrices. However, sometimes these matrices can be so tall that they are difficult to work with, or do not even fit into main memory. One strategy to deal with such objects is to distribute their rows across several processors. To this end, we offer an 'S4' class for tall, skinny, distributed matrices, called the 'shaq'. We also provide many useful numerical methods and statistics operations for operating on these distributed objects. The naming is a bit "tongue-in-cheek", with the class a play on the fact that 'Shaquille' 'ONeal' ('Shaq') is very tall, and he starred in the film 'Kazaam'.

Version:	0.1-0
Depends:	R (≥ 3.0.0), pbdMPI (≥ 0.3-0)
Imports:	methods, stats
Published:	2017-06-29
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.kazaam
Author:	Drew Schmidt [aut, cre], Wei-Chen Chen [aut], Mike Matheson [aut], George Ostrouchov [aut], ORNL [cph]
Maintainer:	Drew Schmidt <wrathematics at gmail.com>
MailingList:	Please send questions and comments regarding pbdR to RBigData@gmail.com
BugReports:	http://group.r-pbd.org/
License:	BSD 2-clause License + file LICENSE
URL:	http://r-pbd.org/
NeedsCompilation:	yes
Citation:	kazaam citation info
Materials:	README ChangeLog
CRAN checks:	kazaam results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	kazaam.pdf
Vignettes:	Guide to the kazaam Package

Downloads:

Package source:	kazaam_0.1-0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: kazaam_0.1-0.zip, r-release: kazaam_0.1-0.zip, r-oldrel: kazaam_0.1-0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-devel (arm64): not available, r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-devel (x86_64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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