[R] multi process support in R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

He said 'pc' in the part you excised, but failed to follow the posting 
guide and tell us his OS.  I am guessing this means Windows, on which 
multicore does not run.

There are several other solutions on CRAN: I'd suggest 'snow' which 
can run over sockets on a single Windows machine, and also (with a lot 
more difficulty) via Rmpi.

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Ben Haller wrote:

> On Feb 17, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Alaios wrote:
>
>> ...Is it possible to split work in many cores in R and if yes how 
>> is this library called?
>
>  I'd recommend the "mclapply" function in the "multicore" package.  The only drawback is that you can't run your code in a GUI any more.
>
> Ben Haller
> McGill University
>
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