Who this book is for

This book is for the intermediate to advanced-level R developer who wants to understand how to harness the power of parallel computing to perform long running computations and analyze large quantities of data. You will require a reasonable knowledge and understanding of R programming. You should be a sufficiently capable programmer so that you can read and understand lower-level languages, such as C/C++, and be familiar with the process of code compilation. You may consider yourself to be the new breed of data scientist—a skilled programmer as well as a mathematician.