R

There are two R releases available on FLOW and HERO. The actual relase is available by

 module load r/3.0.1

With this command the corresponding Intel compilers and Intel MPI will be automatically loaded.

Note: The release 2.15.2 is depricated and only for legacy on the system.

Additional installed packages

The actual release contains a lot of additional R packages, for example

  chron, abind, ade4, akima, bitops, caTools, circular, doMC, doMPI, ensembleBMA, foreach, gdata, geosphere,
  gplots, gtools, hht, iterators, lattice, latticeExtra, ncdf, raster, RColorBrewer, RCurl, signal, solaR,
  stringr, timeDate, truncnorm, VGAM, zoo

and many more...

Usage of R adn MPI

For parallel scripts the R contains the package Rmpi. To launch an parallel R script inside an SGE script please use command line

  mpirun -bootstrap sge -np $NSLOTS -env I_MPI_FABRICS shm:ofa R SCRIPTNAME SCRIPT_CMDLINE_OPTIONS

to enable SGE to control all processes of your script.

External links

• R project
• R manuals