NOTE: The project’s development was on hold during 2017 but will resume from January 2018.
Rperform is a package that allows R developers to track quantitative performance metrics of their code. It focuses on providing changes in a package’s performance metrics, related to runtime and memory, over different git versions and across git branches. Rperform can be integrated with Travis-CI to do performance testing during Travis builds by making changes to the repo’s .travis.yml file. It can prove to be particularly useful while measuring the possible changes which can be introduced by a pull request (PR).
For integrating Rperform with your travis build, check out the instructions provided on the Rperform Wiki.
For more information, tutorials and related blog posts, go through the Rperform wiki.
The project was initiated as a part of the Google Summer of Code 2015 program. Toby Dylan Hocking and Hadley Wickham were the mentors.
The project was accepted into the Google Summer of Code 2016 program. Joshua Ulrich and Toby Dylan Hocking were the mentors.
- You can install the package from github using
devtools*.
library(devtools)
install_github("analyticalmonk/Rperform")or,
devtools::install_github("analyticalmonk/Rperform")For detailed information regarding Rperform’s plotting functions, check out the Wiki.
IMPORTANT: The Rperform package requires you to set the current directory to the concerned git repository before using the functions.
> setwd(dir = "Path/to/repo")- The following example illustrates the use of the
Rperform::plot_metrics()function on the git repository of the package stringr.
> setwd("./stringr")
> library(Rperform)
> plot_metrics(test_path = "tests/testthat/test-join.r", metric = "time", num_commits = 10, save_data = FALSE, save_plots = FALSE)
- The following example illustrates the use of the
Rperform::plot_branchmetrics()function on the git repository of the package stringr.
> setwd("./stringr")
> library(Rperform)
> plot_branchmetrics(test_path = "tests/testthat/test-interp.r", metric = "memory", branch1 = "rperform_test", branch2 = "master", save_data = F, save_plots = F)
- The following example illustrates the use of the
Rperform::time_compare()andRperform::mem_compare()functions on the git repository of the package stringr.
> setwd("./stringr")
> library(Rperform)
> time_compare(test_path = "./tests/testthat/test-dup.r", num_commits = 2)
test_name metric_name status metric_val msg_val date_time
1 basic duplication works time pass 0.001797014 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
2 basic duplication works time pass 0.001539050 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
3 basic duplication works time pass 0.001545034 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
4 0 duplicates equals empty string time pass 0.001019430 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
5 0 duplicates equals empty string time pass 0.000784386 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
6 0 duplicates equals empty string time pass 0.000766279 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
7 test-dup.r time pass 0.003555478 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
8 test-dup.r time pass 0.003118946 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
9 test-dup.r time pass 0.003106017 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
10 basic duplication works time pass 0.001780849 Require latest 2015-01-08 14:03:37
11 basic duplication works time pass 0.001545568 Require latest 2015-01-08 14:03:37
12 basic duplication works time pass 0.001517300 Require latest 2015-01-08 14:03:37
13 0 duplicates equals empty string time pass 0.001028882 Require latest 2015-01-08 14:03:37
14 0 duplicates equals empty string time pass 0.000783847 Require latest 2015-01-08 14:03:37
15 0 duplicates equals empty string time pass 0.000771520 Require latest 2015-01-08 14:03:37
16 test-dup.r time pass 0.003436051 Require latest 2015-01-08 14:03:37
17 test-dup.r time pass 0.003130397 Require latest 2015-01-08 14:03:37
18 test-dup.r time pass 0.003082713 Require latest 2015-01-08 14:03:37
> > Rperform::mem_compare(test_path = "./tests/testthat/test-join.r", num_commits = 1)
test_name metric_name status metric_val msg_val date_time
11.1 basic case works max_mem_mb pass 0.040 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
11.2 basic case works leak_mb pass 0.040 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
11.3 NULLs are dropped max_mem_mb pass 0.044 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
11.4 NULLs are dropped leak_mb pass 0.044 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
11.5 test-join.r max_mem_mb pass 0.148 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
11.6 test-join.r leak_mb pass 0.148 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
12.1 basic case works max_mem_mb pass 0.040 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
12.2 basic case works leak_mb pass 0.040 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
12.3 NULLs are dropped max_mem_mb pass 0.044 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
12.4 NULLs are dropped leak_mb pass 0.044 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
12.5 test-join.r max_mem_mb pass 0.144 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
12.6 test-join.r leak_mb pass 0.144 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
13.1 basic case works max_mem_mb pass 0.040 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
13.2 basic case works leak_mb pass 0.040 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
13.3 NULLs are dropped max_mem_mb pass 0.048 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
13.4 NULLs are dropped leak_mb pass 0.048 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
13.5 test-join.r max_mem_mb pass 0.148 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43
13.6 test-join.r leak_mb pass 0.148 Can now use CRA 2015-01-08 14:09:43