A new package, once again based on wonderful library by Daniel Lemire, is now on CRAN in its initial version 0.0.1. Daniel, in a recent arXiv paper shows that one can convert character representations of ‘numbers’ into floating point at rates at or exceeding one gigabyte per second. His tests show a fourfold gain over library functions such as strtod.
We put a simply package together showing use of the example parser, and containing a simple …