[R] Simple example for High performance computing with R?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 30/05/2012 04:02, Fabrice Tourre wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I want to run two independent calculation (A, B) and then combined
> their results to do a plot in R. Before I just run calculation A
> first, then calculation B. It will take some times. I just have one
> server with multiple core. I noticed that there are some nice package
> in R for parallel calculation, such as parallel, multicore and snow.
> Also there is a book, O’Reilly – “Parallel R, Data Analysis in the
> Distributed World” book by Q. Ethan McCallum and Stephen Weston.
>
> When track into these packages, I am a little of lost because I did
> not know parallel calculation too much.
>
> Could any one can give me some example codes for my purpose? So I can
> easy follow.
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
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Please read the vignette for package 'parallel': we already answered 
your request.

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