The Power of Vectorization in R

I have always been a great fan and avid user of databases. They’re just so versatile, efficient, easy to use, … I found this to be true for all kinds of data, small and large, high-dimensional and low-dimensional, spatial, temporal, you name it. It was only very recently that my data seemed to have outgrown my PostgreSQL database. Not so much in size, but rather in performance.

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