nws-package               package:nws               R Documentation

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     NetWorkSpaces makes it easy to create and experiment with parallel
     programs without requiring specialized tools or hardware. You must
     install both the NetWorkSpaces server (on one machine) and the R
     NetWorkSpaces package (on all machines involved in the
     computation). The server is implemented using Python and Twisted
     (a Python package), which are required.  To download and install
     the server, go to the R NetWorkSpaces project on Source Forge at
     <URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nws-r>.

     A commercial version of NetWorkSpaces which has additional fault 
     tolerance features is available as part of REvolution Computing's 
     ParallelR product. More information is available at <URL:
     http://www.revolution-computing.com/revolution/web/static/products>.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     Further information is available in the following help topics:

       'sleigh'        Create a sleigh for parallel execution
       'eachWorker'    Execute a function on each of the workers in the sleigh
       'eachElem'      Execute a function for a set of arguments
       'netWorkSpace'  Create a NetWorkSpace
       'nwsStore'      Assign a value to a variable in a NetWorkSpace
       'nwsFetch'      Consume a value from a variable in a NetWorkSpace
       'nwsFind'       Retrieve but don't consume a value from a variable in a NetWorkSpace

     For a complete list of functions with individual help pages, use
     'library(help="nws")'.

