Sean and everyone,

Thank you for the reply.

In scenario number 2. It sounds like all I need is have the file system
shared across all the nodes then each node will be able to load R and
various libraries. This sounds straight forward and there should be no
problem with this configuration.

I also have a copy of the paper

State of the art in parallel computing with R By Schmidberger

Richard

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov> wrote:

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>
>   On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Richard Yanicky <richyanicky@gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> This might be common knowledge. I am looking to have a system admin
>> install
>> R on our linux cluster is there general documentation or a documentation
>> resource that would help me direct him on how to do this? If additional
>> information is needed please let me know.
>>
>
> There are two general ways to go:
>
> 1) Install R onto each node separately on a local file system.
>
> 2) Install R onto a shared file system accessible from all nodes.
>
> There is likely a local precedent set for other packages, so you can go
> with that.  Otherwise, there is not really much special about installing R
> on a cluster as compared to a single workstation.
>
> Sean
>
>
>

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