[R-lang] Moving from Linux to Mac OS

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Milton Lopez <mlopez at iattc.org> wrote:
> Also, some years ago I was told that R does not take advantage of
> multiple processors. Has there been any improvement in that area? This
> would have an impact on configuring the new system with more processors
> vs. fewer but faster ones.

That's correct, R cannot automatically take advantage of multiple
processors. There are more and more packages that will help you
more-or-less easily write code that can run in parallel over multiple
processors:
  http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/HighPerformanceComputing.html
But you still have to actually learn how to use the package, write
your code in a parallel way, etc., if you want to get the speedup.

-- Nathaniel