[R] Multithreading

[Prof Brian Ripley]

1) Please update your R: 2.5.0 is imminent.

2) Please read the 'R Installation and Adminstration manual'.  R itself in 
not multithreaded but can make use of multithreaded BLAS.

3) A search of the list archives would have produced many hits, as does
RSiteSearch("multithreaded"), with more information.


On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Ulrich Leopold wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> is R capable of multithreading? At the moment it uses only 1 CPU
> out of 4 CPUs on my system. Is there a compilation option or start option so
> that R uses multiple CPUs at the same time to accomplish a calculation?
>
> Some information on my system:
>
>> R.version
>               _
> platform       x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> arch           x86_64
> os             linux-gnu
> system         x86_64, linux-gnu
> status
> major          2
> minor          3.1
> year           2006
> month          06
> day            01
> svn rev        38247
> language       R
> version.string Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
>
>
> Best regards,
> Ulrich
>
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