Support for parallel computation, including random-number generation.
Details
This package is under development: a first version was released with
R 2.14.0.
There is support for multiple RNG streams with the
"L'Ecuyer-CMRG" RNG: see nextRNGStream.
It contains functionality derived from and pretty much equivalent to
that contained in packages multicore (with some low-level
functions renamed and not exported) and snow (for socket
clusters only, but MPI and NWS clusters generated by
snow are also supported). This package also provides
makeForkCluster.
For a complete list of exported functions, use
library(help = "parallel").