[R] Parallel programming with R

[Douglas Bates]

Isabel <icasas at maths.uwa.edu.au> writes:

> I am trying to do some parallel programming with R. I programmed with C 
> and MPI before. I heard that there is a package called Rmpi and one called 
> snow. What is the difference? 

Frequently that type of question is answered in the documentation for
the two packages.  Did you try looking at

               http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/yu/Rmpi/

and

        http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/cluster/cluster.html

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