[R] Suggestions for synchronizing multisite R use?

In the past, I have been using various rsync scripts for synchronizing, but just realized that I could upload the contents of my .Rprofile to google docs (to maintain a single copy with revision history), and then having each of my local .Rprofiles source the url. (Haven't tried it). Does anybody

[R] Fox's algorithm?

I'm interested in a serial implementation of fox's algorithm for memory management reasons. Does anybody know if there is anything available in R or C libraries? [eg A %*% B is too big to allocate memory for. I really want the values written to disk, so I was thinking that it would be easiest to

Re: [R] R 2.10 under Windows XP: glitches and successes

On a related note, on windows xp + ESS + R 2.9.2, I have long waits when I run: browseURL( unitTestOutFile, browser="C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe") Firefox is always already open, and sometimes the old test results are already open too. Sometimes it takes minutes to open up, som

[R] (Parallel) Random number seed question...

Hi All, I have k identical parallel pieces of code running, each using n.rand random numbers.  I would like to use the same RNG (for now), and set the seeds so that I can guarantee that there are no overlaps in the random numbers sampled by the k pieces of code.  Another side goal is to have repro

[R] R on amazon's EC2 "cloud"?

Hi All, I was wondering if anybody had experience running R on amazon's ec2 "cloud"? More specifically, has anybody created an "amazon machine image" (AMI) for use with it? I was wondering if there was a quantian type image available as an amazon machine image, maybe running debian or ubuntu?