[R] "parallel" package

[Uwe Ligges]

On 29.04.2012 09:28, Indrajit Sengupta wrote:
> You don't need quotes in the library statement, you can just use library(parallel).

Yes, a special (mis-)feature of library(). Since we are trying to teach 
R here, we should provide clean R code. In an ideal world, we would be 
able to say

pkg <- "parallel"
library(pkg)

doing the same as

library("parallel")

which is unfortunately not possible, because library(pkg) tries a 
package called "pkg".

Best,
Uwe Ligges



>
> Regards,
> Indrajit
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> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 11:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] "parallel" package
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> On 28.04.2012 20:18, ya wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Anyone knows Where I can get the "parallel" package? The google results
>> said this package has been released since R 2.14, but I could not find a
>> place to get it.
>>
>> I am doing a multiple imputation for missing values, it is really time
>> consuming. I figured maybe it's more efficient by paralleling my CPU. I
>> got an intel dual core i5 processor in a Thankpad x201 laptop. And I
>> have used install.packages ("parallel") in R 2.15 on both linux and
>> windows xp, no package installed. So maybe this package is not on cran?
>> Any idea?
>
> It is shipped as an R base packaage. Just use
>
> library("parallel")
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>> ya
>>
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