From simon.urbanek at r-project.org  Sat Oct 28 23:33:11 2006
From: simon.urbanek at r-project.org (Simon Urbanek)
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:33:11 -0400
Subject: [Rd] [R] multithreading calling from the rpy Python package
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On Oct 28, 2006, at 5:10 PM, Ren? J.V. Bertin wrote:

> I don't want to keep hammering on the possible interest of python in
> this context... but have you seen this?
>
> http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/Parallel_Computing
>
> I know, not exactly the same as multithreading ;)
>

Um - have you seen this?
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/snow.html
It allows parallel computing in R - and has support for more backends  
than the ipython stuff ;).

On a more serious note I can only repeat what have been said before -  
AFAIK the Python concept is too limited to be really of significant  
use in R and real threaded R is not on the horizon anytime soon.  
However, approaches like snow were suitable for most parallelization  
tasks I have encountered in R... So unless someone writes a lot of  
[the right] code (which would be great!) it's unlikely to change.

Cheers,
Simon




[Rd] [R] multithreading calling from the rpy Python package
Simon Urbanek