Re: [R] rjags and parallel chains

2012-11-25 Thread ilai
Specifying n >1 chains is not enough. You need some parallel backend. You can use snow/snowfall or doMC (these are R libraries) for example. Maybe others, google is your friend. Word of caution about doMC (maybe also snowfall, never tested it), you might need to specify RNG (seed, sampler) for each

[R] rjags and parallel chains

2012-11-25 Thread Noah Silverman
Hello, I have a fairly complex hierarchical model that I using rjags to fit. Short test runs verify that it works and everything appears to be setup correctly. Now that I want to collect a larger sample from the posterior (5,000 or more). This looks like it will take several days to run on my