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Re:Ask HN: Who's using Clojure, and to do what? by piggybox on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @10:58AM (#1455081)
R does have quite a bit of financial libraries, yet I don't remember R has any good support on parallel computing, hmm?
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Re:Ask HN: Who's using Clojure, and to do what? by chink on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @11:41PM (#1457250)
True, but Matlab has good support for distributed computing. It's even possible to do this on an EC2 cluster. Pretty impressive really: http://www.mathworks.com/programs/techkits/ec2_paper.html

edit: Cleaned up my bad grammar.

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Re:Ask HN: Who's using Clojure, and to do what? by mfredrickson on Thursday June 24, 2010 @04:56PM (#1459099)
There is the multicore package:

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/multicore/index.html

My worry with parallel loops in R would be inadvertent race conditions. For example, is the random number generator in R thread safe? I doubt it.

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