1) Is is possible to run the Windows version of R across all four processors?
2) I was under the impression that R for Linux supported multi-threading by default. Am I correct in this assumption? If not, is it possible for Linux R to multi thread, and how do I go about configuring this?
It seems reasonable to be asking an R reading list questions about whether or not the R framework can work in parallel, but we get this response:
> 1) Is is possible to run the Windows version of R across all four
> processors?
No.
That's it. I'm not truncating here for the sake of proving a point. The guy just disregards the question entirely.
Continuing the response:
> 2) I was under the impression that R for Linux supported multi-threading by
> default. Am I correct in this assumption? If not, is it possible for Linux R
> to multi thread, and how do I go about configuring this?
Your impression/assumption is wrong.
Taking someone's obviously false misconception and ignoring the obviousness of the question but instead, INSTEAD, throwing it back in their face with an assault on their reasoning ability! BOOYAH!
A few emails later (after an interesting argument about how C works):
> Will snow be anyway useful for this, or multithreading must be made
> explicit (I don't know how) within the C code, or there is nothing we can
> do?
Please do your own homeork on what snow (etc) do, and how multithreaded
BLAS work (and the ones I am familiar with are C code and use pthreads --
OpenMP is another possibility).
I get it that he's British. I get that he's a stats prof. I get that he works at Oxford. But seriously, why does he insist on reading the R boards and then only respond with asinine remarks? If you're too busy to help people find information about this software package, maybe you shouldn't spend the time to get on and flame them. Seriously, that last email was basically "I'm emailing you to tell you I can't email you."
I hate trolls. Here's the closest thing I've come to understanding them:
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