[R-SIG-Mac] Multiple threads on MacPro

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Matthew Fero wrote:

> I'm wondering what is the best way is to take advantage of the  
> multiple CPUs on a MacPro?  For example, does someone have  
> suggestions on how to setup and use parApply functions, in the snow  
> package, on a multi-core Mac?

I don't know if it's the best, but lately I like using the foreach  
package with the multicore backend

  * http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/foreach/index.html
  * http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doMC/index.html
  * http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/multicore/

-steve

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