New and Improved R

Oct 01, 2008

Work published last week in BMC Bioinformatics unveiled a way to parallelize R statistical analysis by using an add-on package, called R/parallel. The package "extends R by adding user-friendly parallel computing capabilities" and "processing time can be approximately reduced N-fold, N being the number of available processor cores," researchers write in the abstract.

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