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Parallelism In R

Published 2017-09-06 by Kevin Feasel

Florian Prive shows off a few methods for parallelizing code in R:

Parallelize with foreach

You need to do at least two things:

  • replace %do% by %dopar%. Basically, always use %dopar% because you can use registerDoSEQ() is you really want to run the foreach sequentially.

  • register a parallel backend using one of the packages that begin with do (such as doParallel, doMC, doMPI and more). I will list only the two main parallel backends because there are too many of them.

Check it out.  Florian spends a lot of time with foreach and doParallel, a little bit of time with flock, and mentions Microsoft R Open.  H/T R-Bloggers

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