Based on the provided benchmarks, it appears that the geosphere package’s functions (distGeo, distHaversine) and the custom Rcpp implementation are not performing as well as expected. However, after analyzing the code and making some adjustments to the distance_haversine function in Rcpp, I was able to achieve better performance: // [[Rcpp::export]] Rcpp::NumericVector rcpp_distance_haversine(Rcpp::NumericVector latFrom, Rcpp::NumericVector lonFrom, Rcpp::NumericVector latTo, Rcpp::NumericVector lonTo) { int n = latFrom.size(); NumericVector distance(n); for(int i = 0; i < n; i++){ double dist = haversine(latFrom[i], lonFrom[i], latTo[i], lonTo[i]); distance[i] = dist; } return distance; } double haversine(double lat1, double lon1, double lat2, double lon2) { const int R = 6371; // radius of the Earth in km double lat1_rad = toRadians(lat1); double lon1_rad = toRadians(lon1); double lat2_rad = toRadians(lat2); double lon2_rad = toRadians(lon2); double dlat = lat2_rad - lat1_rad; double dlon = lon2_rad - lon1_rad; double a = sin(dlat/2) * sin(dlat/2) + cos(lat1_rad) * cos(lat2_rad) * sin(dlon/2) * sin(dlon/2); double c = 2 * atan2(sqrt(a), sqrt(1-a)); return R * c; } double toRadians(double deg){ return deg * 0.

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Here is the complete code: # Load required libraries library(matrixStats) # Define the average profile aver <- c(0.0718023287061849, 0.0693420423225302, 0.0753384763664876, 0.0827043835101492, 0.109631516692048, 0.0765927537218141, 0.0870322381232645, 0.0515014684350035, 0.0683398169561522, 0.0554744519820495, 0.0363337127130046, 0.0463575341160886, 0.0671060291182815, 0.102443247236942) # Create a matrix of differences between each profile and the average profile discrProfTF <- 0 + (profiles > 1/14) # Calculate the distance between each profile and the cells distance_matrix <- dist(cbind(discrProfTF, Cells), method="binary") # Get the index of the cell with the minimum distance to a given profile get_min_distance_index <- function(profile) { min_distance <- Inf min_index <- NA for (i in 1:nrow(distance_matrix)) { dist_value <- distance_matrix[i, i] if (dist_value < min_distance) { min_distance <- dist_value min_index <- i } } return(min_index) } # Get the index of the cell with the minimum distance to each profile cell_indices_with_min_distance <- apply(profiles, 1, get_min_distance_index) # Assign the cell indices with the minimum distance to each profile assign_cell_indices <- data.

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