Merge pull request #18 from stulacy/feature/optimising-r-20230628

Added post for optimising R talk on 2023-06-28

Author: ZedThree

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+title: Speeding up R for Data Analysis
+author: Stuart Lacy
+tags: R data science
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+Stuart discussed a variety of methods to speed up your data analysis in R, covering a wide range of topics including: vectorisation, linking datasets, data.table, larger than memory datasets, duckdb, and Rcpp. 
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+The source code and slides are available in [this repo][source].
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+A recording of the talk can be found [here][recording].
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+[source]: https://github.com/ResearchCodingClub/speeding-up-R-workshop
+[recording]: https://eu-lti.bbcollab.com/recording/3c61ef3f521040e08e0d10eaf11a6255