F1000 Prime‘s Ian Wang, “Good for teaching, technological advance. Ecological and evolutionary research has increasingly made use of computationally intensive processes in R. This is a valuable paper with helpful suggestions for writing efficient R code and finding ways to speed up processing. The supplementary information and the associated R package for diagnosing potential problem areas are particularly useful.”
Check out the paper:
Speeding up ecological and evolutionary computations in R; essentials of high performance computing for biologists.
PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 Mar;11(3):e1004140