Bug#534865: ITP: r-cran-domc -- GNU R parallel excution backend for %dopar% using multicore

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : r-cran-domc
  Version         : 1.1.0
  Upstream Author : REvolution Computing, Inc.
* URL or Web page : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doMC/index.html
* License         : Apache License 2.0
  Description     : GNU R parallel excution backend for %dopar% using multicore

This package builds on r-cran-foreach and r-cran-iterators (which I just
ITP'ed as well) and the very nice r-cran-multicore which has been in NEW for
about four weeks and should enter unstable any day.  Together, they provide a
really nice new parallel computing paradigm for R which we should support
inside Debian.

For reference, the draft debian/control file is included below:

  Source: r-cran-domc
  Section: gnu-r
  Priority: optional
  Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
  Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.0), r-base-dev (>= 2.9.1), cdbs, r-cran-multicore, r-cran-foreach, r-cran-iterators
  Standards-Version: 3.8.2
  Homepage: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doMC/index.html
  
  Package: r-cran-domc
  Architecture: all
  Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.9.1), r-cran-multicore, r-cran-foreach, r-cran-iterators
  Description: GNU R parallel excution backend for %dopar% using multicore
   This package provides a parallel backend for the %dopar% function using
   Simon Urbanek's multicore package.

For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below:

  Package: doMC
  Type: Package
  Title: Foreach parallel adaptor for the multicore package
  Version: 1.1.0
  Author: REvolution Computing
  Maintainer: REvolution Computing <support@REvolution-computing.com>
  Description: Provides a parallel backend for the %dopar% function using
          Simon Urbanek's multicore package.
  Depends: R (>= 2.5.0), foreach(>= 1.2.0), iterators(>= 1.0.0),
          multicore(>= 0.1), utils
  License: Apache License (== 2.0)
  Packaged: 2009-06-26 18:22:06 UTC; weston
  Repository: CRAN
  Date/Publication: 2009-06-27 08:16:07




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