Dear R users, at March 15. & 16. there will be an R course for 'Parallel Computing with R' in Munich at the super computer center. The course is part of the Munich R Course series and gives an introduction to parallel computing with R. Especially the R packages snow, snowfall, multicore, nws and Rmpi will be used. The course is a hands-on tutorial with a lot of different examples. Furthermore, for exercises the super computer HLRB2 at the LRZ can be used. Currently there are still vacancies. The course will be held in German. Further information at http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/R/inhalte.html#K3 Best regards Markus Schmidberger