[R] R: Securities earning covariance

[R. Michael Weylandt]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli at gmail.com> wrote:
>     Hello,
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:15 AM, R. Michael Weylandt
> <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ii) There does not exist -- to my knowledge -- an implementation of R
>> which runs on the JVM.
>
>  I think he means driving the R framework from Java via JNI. I think
> the questions boils down to whether you can open multiple independent
> R sessions on the same system and then address them separately via JNI
> (I don't know, but I would assume you can do that without multiplying
> the installation).

Yes, that seems to be the issue at play and best I understand the
set-up you get this "for free" from the in-memory model. You shouldn't
need two R installations any more than you need to install the JVM
twice to run two JVMs on one box.

Best,
Michael

>
>     Take care
>     Oliver
>
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