Hi Steve, Thanks for asking - I forgot to mention I use windows XP. And the only support foreach has for windows (as far as I read from the manuals so far) - is for the snow package.
Cheers, Tal On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Steve Lianoglou < mailinglist.honey...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tal, > > On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Tal Galili wrote: > > Hello dear R community. >> I just started playing with the snowfall package (a wrapper for the snow >> package), and found it very convenient. >> (See also this great website: >> http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/parallel/ ) >> >> I was wondering if it is possible to connect snowfall with the foreach >> package (since it has some connection to snow). >> >> >> My final goal is to do some simple parallel simulations on my two >> processors. >> > > It seems you want to parallelize your computation on a single computer, so > what benefit do you find using snow/snowfall over using the foreach w/ > multicore backend? > > Just curious because I've moved off of any snow* related packages since I > only parallelize on the same box and find that the foreach/doMC combo works > just fine. > > -steve > > -- > Steve Lianoglou > Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology > | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center > | Weill Medical College of Cornell University > Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact > > -- ---------------------------------------------- My contact information: Tal Galili Phone number: 972-50-3373767 FaceBook: Tal Galili My Blogs: http://www.r-statistics.com/ http://www.talgalili.com http://www.biostatistics.co.il [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
