R packages - Jul 2011 - xgrid package: Access Apple Xgrid using R

The package xgrid 0.1-11 is now available on CRAN.? The package provides
functions to distribute and collate results from
simulation studies and other computationally expensive tasks to
Apple Xgrid clusters from within R.

More specifically, the routines within the package facilitate access to Apple
Xgrid clusters (which can be created using standard installations of Mac OS X,
for example in a classroom or computer lab) to undertake independent simulations
or other
long-running jobs that can be divided into replicate runs.? In addition to the
documentation within the package, more information can be found at:

http://www.math.smith.edu/xgrid

On a related note, the "runjags" package provides similar
functionality for Gibbs sampling.

Happy simulating!

Nick

Nicholas Horton
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Smith College
Clark Science Center
Northampton, MA 01063-0001 USA

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