[R-SIG-Mac]parallel distributed computing in R

[Jan de Leeuw]

Li and Rossini recently published the RPVM package, an interface
in R to the PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine). PVM makes it
possible, in fact rather easy, to write programs that run
their tasks on multiple machines (such as a Beowulf or our G4
cluster, but heterogeneous machines are also possible). The
RPVM package allows you to run PVM commands from R, i.e.
to distribute (computationally intensive) R tasks over multiple
machines (and to provide an R interface to legacy PVM programs).

I am happy to report that PVM and XPVM (a tcl/tk GUI for PVM),
and RPVM all compile without problems on Darwin.

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