optimizing-r

optimizing-r is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from justanesta/claude-code-resources. It costs 82 tokens per session (996 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to finding and improving slow R programs. R is a programming language commonly used for statistics and data analysis; the guide covers measuring runtime, memory use, and parallel work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to profile code, compare base R, dplyr, and data.table approaches, benchmark alternatives, or decide whether parallel processing fits the task.
Why use it?
It helps identify the actual bottleneck before changing code. This avoids optimizing the wrong part or making code harder to read without making it faster.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/justanesta/claude-code-resources/optimizing-r
Any agent
npx skills add justanesta/claude-code-resources --skill optimizing-r
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/justanesta/claude-code-resources

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 996 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00082 $0.00996
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00498
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00100

Measured 3d ago against content hash ccd1e3699c03, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

optimizing-r scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/R/optimizing-r/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Optimizing R

This skill covers profiling, benchmarking, parallelization, and performance best practices for R.

Core Principle

Profile before optimizing - Use profvis and bench to identify real bottlenecks. Write readable code first, optimize only when necessary.

Profiling Tools Decision Matrix

Tool Use When Don't Use When What It Shows
profvis Complex code, unknown bottlenecks Simple functions, known issues Time per line, call stack
bench::mark() Comparing alternatives Single approach Relative performance, memory
system.time() Quick checks Detailed analysis Total runtime only
Rprof() Base R only environments When profvis available Raw profiling data

Performance Workflow

  1. Profile first - Find the actual bottlenecks
  2. Focus on the slowest parts - 80/20 rule
  3. Benchmark alternatives - For hot spots only
  4. Consider tool trade-offs - Based on bottleneck type

See profiling-workflow.md for the complete workflow.

When Each Tool Helps vs Hurts

Parallel Processing (in_parallel())

Helps when:

  • CPU-intensive computations
  • Embarrassingly parallel problems
  • Large datasets with independent operations
  • I/O bound operations (file reading, API calls)

Hurts when:

  • Simple, fast operations (overhead > benefit)
  • Memory-intensive operations (may cause thrashing)
  • Operations requiring shared state
  • Small datasets

See parallel-examples.md for decision points.

Data Backend Selection

Backend Use When
data.table Very large datasets (>1GB), complex grouping, maximum performance critical
dplyr Readability priority, complex joins/window functions, moderate data (<100MB)
base R No dependencies allowed, simple operations, teaching/learning

See backend-selection.md for guidance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 109 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A ccd1e3699c03

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optimizing-r is a skill published in the GitHub repository justanesta/claude-code-resources (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 996 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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