look into the following knot of CRAN packages:
SNOW
Rmpi
Rpvm
rlecuyer
rsprng
SNOW-FT
RScaLAPACK
et cetera.
these provide some pretty interesting bits - like a suite of parallelized
apply() functions.
--elijah
Has anyone tried running R on a Beowulf-type cluster? I can get R to run in
batch (us
> i could not figure out how to write prior=c("uniform") in R. I would get
> an error every time. I think that it has something to do
> with "uniform". Do you know what i use instead of "uniform" for R? I am
> trying to do a uniform distribution.
try ?runif (random uniform distribution)
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> > > If the Linux and Mac OSX builds are successfully done, I will submit
> > > the packages to the CRAN server.
> >
> > all four of the packages successfully build on Debian unstable - no
> > errors, nor warnings. this is a Good Thing. I would guesstimate that
>
> Ah, thanks, good to know. Did
> What are the next steps?
>
> Maybe somebody is around and can try to build the packages for (Debian)
> Linux and Mac OSX. This would be a great help for me! The *.tar.gz files
> are availalble on
> If the Linux and Mac OSX builds are successfully done, I will submit the
> packages to the CRAN s
> You need to find a version of SparseM in the CRAN archive of comparable
> age to your R version (nearly two years),
>
> *or*, much better, update your R to 1.9.0 (or the current patched
> version)
What you said. :)
the current R packages available in debian unstable work VERY well.
as a bonus
