I have a lot of methods in methylumi (the revised version) that will happily
parallelize themselves for (e.g.) loading hundreds of IDAT files, background
correcting and normalizing anything in sight, etc.  Sometimes it's easier to
parallelize things until I can find time to make them properly efficient
(boooo!).
When I compiled HEAD for R-2.14 the other day, after installing it, I typed

library(parallel)

And all the handy bits of snow and multicore were in there!  If I switch to
the 'parallel' package, by default, will I now be OK and not screw Windows
users? Everything works great on Linux/Unix, and has done so for months,
with 'multicore'.  It seems like there aren't any substantial differences
other than things "just work" for a base installation -- do other package
authors anticipate moving over now that this is slated to be in the stable
release?

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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple,
it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.John von
Neumann<http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Von_Neumann.html>

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