From mtmorgan at fhcrc.org  Fri Jan  5 14:16:18 2007
From: mtmorgan at fhcrc.org (Martin Morgan)
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:16:18 -0800
Subject: [Rd] How to execute R scripts simultaneously
	from	multiple	threads
In-Reply-To: <459E2151.8000708@erik.prutser.cx> (Erik van Zijst's message of
	"Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:58:41 +0100")
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Hi Erik,

Erik van Zijst <r at erik.prutser.cx> writes:

> Hi Martin,
>
> Your approach of bolting a webservices layer on top of R is a really
> nice (and quite natural) thing to do.
[...]
> As you already suggested, webservices are fairly expensive with their
> HTTP and XML-parsing, making it less suitable for many small
> invocations. However, it makes an ideal fit in most other environments.
> Webservices adoption has come a long way, so I expect it to easily find
> its way into the enterprise (is it GPL-licensed?).

The core work is supported by funds from http://cabig.cancer.gov; the
license is open-source (see links at
http://cabig.nci.nih.gov/working_groups/DSIC_SLWG).

Thanks for your interest and support,

Martin
-- 
Martin T. Morgan
Bioconductor / Computational Biology
http://bioconductor.org



[Rd] How to execute R scripts simultaneously from multiple threads
Martin Morgan