[R] Using multicores in R

[Jim Porzak]

Moriah,

Since you are doing nested loops, Rcpp may be an easy speed-up. Follow
all the links here
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/11/hadleys-guide-to-high-performance-r-with-rcpp.html
for details.

HTH,
Jim Porzak
Minted.com
San Francisco, CA
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:14 AM, moriah <moriahcohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an R script which is time consuming because it has two nested loops
> in it of at least 5000 iterations each, I have tried to use the multicore
> package but id doesn't seem to improve the elapsed time of the script(a
> shorter script for example) and I can't use the mcapply because of technical
> reasons.
>
> I was wondering how can I make my script use more cores and memory because I
> am running it on a server and it is a shame that it uses only one core.
>
> Thanks!
> Moriah
>
>
>
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