I addition to Michael's suggestions, you can also check out this tutorial which shows how to use lapply into EC2.
http://www.rinfinance.com/agenda/2012/workshop/WhitArmstrong.pdf Unfortunately, rzmq is not available on windows, so this may not be the best solution for your setup. -Whit On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Bazman76 <h_a_patie...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for that I hadn't realised parallel could run on windows Pc's. > > The code is differential evolution but its not part of a package. > > Still I would like to be able to use cloud computing if possible, any > thoughts on the easiest way to achieve that using a windows based PC? > > Found this blog which seems to give pretty clear instructions: > > http://travisnelson.net/2011/05/05/ec2-micro-instance-of-rstudio/ > > and was also recommended cloudRmpi package. > > Have you experience with either of these? > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Parallel-R-tp4643175p4643186.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.