Message-ID: <18925.58702.545454.747581@ron.nulle.part>
Date: 2009-04-21T15:25:02Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: How to install R on a linux cluster.
In-Reply-To: <67af12830904210738w36e66058k631dbd9b6c5003aa@mail.gmail.com>
On 21 April 2009 at 10:38, Richard Yanicky wrote:
| This might be common knowledge. I am looking to have a system admin install
| R on our linux cluster is there general documentation or a documentation
| resource that would help me direct him on how to do this? If additional
| information is needed please let me know.
On Debian / Ubunti all you need to get going is
$ sudo apt-get install r-base r-cran-mpi r-cran-snow
and you have R with MPI and the snow wrapper package. Not a bad place to
start as per the Schmidberger er al paper surveying parallel computing with
Linux.
There is no magic bullet -- Linux elements in a cluster are still 'just'
Linux machines. So use the tools of the distro you (or your sysadmin) are
familiar with. I like Debian/Ubuntu; you may want to look at Scientific
Linux which is Fedora-based but I am not sure how much R content you find
there.
Dirk
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