RE: [R] help wanted using R in a classroom

2005-01-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote: From: bogdan romocea It appears you wouldn't get much improvement at all even if the 2nd CPU were used at 100%. Five R sessions can easily overwhelm one CPU. I think you need (a lot) more CPUs than 2 to solve your problem. Possible solutions: 1. Install R on

RE: [R] help wanted using R in a classroom

2005-01-19 Thread Paul Roebuck
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, bogdan romocea wrote: It appears you wouldn't get much improvement at all even if the 2nd CPU were used at 100%. Five R sessions can easily overwhelm one CPU. I think you need (a lot) more CPUs than 2 to solve your problem. Possible solutions: 1. Install R on each eMac.

Re: [R] help wanted using R in a classroom

2005-01-19 Thread Don MacQueen
Re-reading your email carefully, I'm not absolutely sure whether the multiple R processes are all running on the server, as I first assumed. If they are, then it seems to me that the solution is to get the R processes running on the clients. On my OS X box, R is a link to the R script located

RE: [R] help wanted using R in a classroom

2005-01-18 Thread bogdan romocea
It appears you wouldn't get much improvement at all even if the 2nd CPU were used at 100%. Five R sessions can easily overwhelm one CPU. I think you need (a lot) more CPUs than 2 to solve your problem. Possible solutions: 1. Install R on each eMac. Since you have 40 of them, you might want to put

RE: [R] help wanted using R in a classroom

2005-01-18 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: bogdan romocea It appears you wouldn't get much improvement at all even if the 2nd CPU were used at 100%. Five R sessions can easily overwhelm one CPU. I think you need (a lot) more CPUs than 2 to solve your problem. Possible solutions: 1. Install R on each eMac. Since you have