Practice Activity 10: Speed it up!

This week’s practice activity is a code speed challenge! It is optional and provides a chance for extra credit. You may work with one partner from outside your project group if you wish.

Instructions

The R package slowpoke, located at Cal-Poly-Advanced-R/slowpoke is designed to analyze a dataset of information about pokemon cards, taken from this Kaggle page.

Alas, some of the functions are slower than they need to be!

Fork the package repository, then make any edits you choose to the package. There are not any intentional hidden bugs in the code; only slow implementation choices.

Scoring

Turn in a link to your repository. I will install your package and speed test the following code:

I do not recommend running this code until you’ve made some speed-up changes to the package!

my_favorite_pokes <- c("Slowpoke", "Bulbasaur", "Oddish", "wooper", "Zapdos", "Mimikyu", "Togepi", "Weepinbell", "slowpoke")

find_many_pokes(my_favorite_pokes)

rarity_by_release(series)
rarity_by_release(artist)

5 extra credit points for: Any submissions that are (a) installable packages and (b) faster than the original, even by a little bit.

5 additional extra credit points for: The top three fastest submissions in each class, as tested by the professor.