There's also microsoft's R-Open (https://mran.microsoft.com/download) which I've found is faster than the out of the box R since it supports better multi-threading of commands.
IIRC most of that is because they use Intel's MKL and a better BLAS; if you like docker, using the Rocker containers uses the better BLAS, and I think adding MKL isn't too hard either.
claytonjy|7 years ago