[R] Condor and R

[David Reitter]

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has successfully linked R against the  
Condor libraries so that R can be run as a Condor job in the  
"standard" (not "vanilla") universe. The advantage of this would be  
that due to checkpointing, jobs can be suspended and transferred to  
another node. There is a good overview by Xianhong Xie here:

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2005-2.pdf

Unfortunately, the article points out that some restrictions of  
Condor preclude us from running R in the standard universe. Does  
anyone know if this can be overcome?

Thanks
David

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David Reitter - ICCS/HCRC, Informatics, University of Edinburgh