Re: [Rd] Excessive network load

2006-10-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You haven't even told us your OS! The simple solution is to use a local copy of R. It is probably the case that few of those 1500 packages are used, and certainly that few are used in each R session: you may also want to install locally any that are heavily used. We found it advantageous to d

[Rd] Excessive network load

2006-10-23 Thread Claudio Lottaz
Dear all, I wonder, if anybody experiences similar problems and if there are any simple solutions to be suggested. We observe that R causes a lot of network traffic and thus slows down the performance of the whole network. When tracing the network traffic on the machine which serves the R inst