LGI/Rlgi

Rlgi is a package for the programming language R to seamlessly run on an LGI grid. In usage it is similar to the R package Rsge.

This package is being developed at github. More info will follow when it's ready.

Example session

 > library(Rlgi)
 Loading required package: snow
 Loading required package: XML
 Welcome to Rlgi
     Version: 0.0.7
 
 > # non-cluster-aware call, runs locally
 > sapply(c(10:20), function(x){x^3})
  [1] 1000 1331 1728 2197 2744 3375 4096 4913 5832 6859 8000
 
 > # use Rlgi's function to do sapply, but run locally for testing
 > lgi.parSapply(c(10:20), function(x){x^3}, cluster=FALSE)
 [Rlgi] Running locally
  [1] 1000 1331 1728 2197 2744 3375 4096 4913 5832 6859 8000
 
 > # now run remotely, block until all computations are finished
 > lgi.parSapply(c(10:20), function(x){x^3})
 [Rlgi] Submitting 1 jobs...
 [Rlgi] All jobs submitted, waiting for completion.
 [Rlgi] Waiting for jobs:   0 queued;    0 running;   1 other      
  [1] 1000 1331 1728 2197 2744 3375 4096 4913 5832 6859 8000