[R] How can I use muliple cores of CPU in Windows or OS X?

[Peter Langfelder]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Uwe Ligges
<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
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> On 06.11.2013 00:26, Simon Pickert wrote:
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>> Mcapply from package 'parallel'. Also see package 'multicore'
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> Not mcapply: it won't work under Windows that the OP asked for.
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> But package parallel is the right hint. It also provides other
> parallelization techniques that will work under Windows.

Packages foreach and doParallel provide ways of writing parallel code
that will run on all systems, without having to worry about details of
parallel computation on each platform.

HTH,

Peter