[R] Managing random number generating, while using Condor parallel computing

2009-09-30 Thread Tal Galili
Hello all, Recently I started playing with running R scripts on the Condor system in my institute. (For more on this, have a look at: Running Long R Jobs with Condor DAG by Xianhong Xie link: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2005-2.pdf ) Might someone advice me about the following

Re: [R] Managing random number generating, while using Condor parallel computing

2009-09-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:02:15PM +0200, Tal Galili wrote: Might someone advice me about the following question: How should I handle the RNG (random number generation) in the running of parallel instances of R on different machines. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Ar-project.org+parallel+RNG --

Re: [R] Managing random number generating, while using Condor parallel computing

2009-09-30 Thread Tal Galili
Thanks/Sorry Dirk. After some more searches I found: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rsprng/index.html With a nice explenation about it here: http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=packages:cran:rsprng Thanks/Sorry again, Tal -- My