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I write about R every weekday at http://blog.revolution-computing.com . In case you missed them, here are some articles from last month of particular interest to R users. http://bit.ly/tygLz announced the release of the "foreach" and "iterators" packages on CRAN, for simple scalable parallel programming in R. http://bit.ly/FDS67 linked to Thomas Levin's Joy-Division-esque band T-shirt made with R http://bit.ly/16zTph discussed R's involvement in the Netfli...

...in this case, the multicore package (from Simon Urbanek). With this connection, foreach loops on MacOS and Unix/Linux systems will make use of all the available cores/processors on the local workstation to run iterations in parallel. More information at blog.revolution-computing.com: http://bit.ly/tygLz -- David M Smith <david at revolution-computing.com> Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events ___________________________________...

...in this case, the multicore package (from Simon Urbanek). With this connection, foreach loops on MacOS and Unix/Linux systems will make use of all the available cores/processors on the local workstation to run iterations in parallel. More information at blog.revolution-computing.com: http://bit.ly/tygLz -- David M Smith <david at revolution-computing.com> Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events ___________________________________...