Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Whit Armstrong wrote:
I have a package that takes about 20 minutes to compile which tends to
prolong the compile/test/compile cycle.

Does anyone know how to get R CMD check or R CMD INSTALL to use parallel make?

I looked at R CMD INSTALL --help, but I don't see anything obvious
arguments to do this.

Platform?

Does

MAKE="make -j8" R CMD INSTALL ...
>
not work?

I cannot believe this works safely, at least when installing into the same library, because of R's lock mechanism that locks a library if *one* installation is running ...

Best,
Uwe


(Beware: Here there be Tygers. Parallel makes have their surprises....)


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