title: multithreading with R?
body: <p>Reading the <a href="http://www.r-project.org/" rel="noreferrer">R-project</a> website, there are some (unclear) references to multithreading with R, but it is unclear how the base product and <a href="http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/" rel="noreferrer">CRAN</a> libraries are compiled.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/products/revolution-r.php" rel="noreferrer">Revolution Analytics</a> offers multithreaded base(?) download for Windows and Redhat.</p>
  
  <p>Would some of the other Linux distributions also include multithreaded R (and packages)?</p>