Description
Support for parallel computation, including random-number generation.Details
This package was first included with R 2.14.0 in 2011. There is support for multiple RNG streams with the
"L'Ecuyer-CMRG" RNG: see nextRNGStream. It contains functionality derived from and pretty much equivalent to
that contained in packages multicore (formerly on
CRAN, with some low-level functions renamed and not
exported) and https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=snow (for socket clusters only, but MPI and
NWS clusters generated by https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=snow are also supported). There
have been many enhancements and bug fixes since 2011. This package also provides makeForkCluster. For a complete list of exported functions, use
library(help = "parallel").See Also
Parallel computation involves launching worker processes: functions
psnice and pskill in package tools
provide means to manage such processes.