Bug#542860: ITP: r-cran-dosnow -- GNU R parallel execution backend for %dopar% using snow

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

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

* Package name    : r-cran-dosnow
  Version         : 1.0.3
  Upstream Author : REvolution Computing 
* URL or Web page : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doSNOW/index.html
* License         : GPL-2
  Description     : GNU R parallel execution backend for %dopar% using snow

This is a second backend for the recently-introduced 'foreach' framework for
R.  Besides r-cran-domc, which uses multicore and cannot span execution
across single meachines, this provides a backend for foreach's %dopar%
operator that uses the robust and well-tested snow package by Luke Tierney et
al (provided in r-cran-snow).

The debian/control file is:

  Source: r-cran-dosnow
  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-snow, r-cran-foreach, r-cran-iterators
  Standards-Version: 3.8.2
  Homepage: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doSNOW/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 snow
   This package provides a parallel backend for the %dopar% function using
   Luke Tierney's snow package (which itself can wrap MPI, PVM, NWS or sockets).

The original DESCRIPTION is:

  Package: doSNOW
  Type: Package
  Title: Foreach parallel adaptor for the snow package
  Version: 1.0.3
  Author: REvolution Computing
  Maintainer: REvolution Computing <packages@REvolution-computing.com>
  Description: Provides a parallel backend for the %dopar% function using
          Luke Tierney's snow package.
  Depends: R (>= 2.5.0), foreach(>= 1.2.0), iterators(>= 1.0.0), snow(>=
          0.3.0), utils
  License: GPL-2
  Packaged: 2009-08-20 21:25:15 UTC; weston
  Repository: CRAN
  Date/Publication: 2009-08-21 05:15:15


Dirk

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