StarCluster is a utility for creating and managingdistributed computing clusters hosted on Amazon's Elastic ComputeCloud (EC2). StarCluster utilizes Amazon´s EC2 web service to createand destroy clusters of Linux virtual machines on demand. Justin Riley http://star.mit.edu/cluster/docs/latest/index.html StarCluster documentation StarCluster provides a convenient ... [Read more...]

List comprehensions in Python or Haskell are popular and useful tools to filter a list given some predicates. The foreach package by Revolution Analytics gives us a handy interface to list comprehensions in R. Quicksort is a recursive algorithm to ... [Read more...]

I just stumbled across a really useful infix function in R: %in%. It compares two vectors and returs a logical vector if there is a match or not for its left operand. Let us look at some examples: __ 1:10 %in% c(1,3,5,9) [1] TRUE FALSE TRUE... [Read more...]

If you use R and ssh into other machines a lot, e.g. for doing some big data stuff on ec2, ess-remote is a great tool. Just use M-x ssh to ssh into the remote machine, then launch R. Now just M-x ess-remote and you can use the R process ... [Read more...]

Compiling R from Source in OS X I set out to find out whether I could speed up R by compiling it from source and: using Apple´s Accelerate Framework enabling OpenMP (which is disabled under OS X and Windows by default, but enabled under Linux) using Intel´s Intel´... [Read more...]