r-cran-multicore software package provides GNU R parallel processing on multi-core or multi-cpu machines, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install r-cran-multicore
r-cran-multicore is installed in your system.
Make ensure the r-cran-multicore package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep r-cran-multicore *
You will get with r-cran-multicore package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | GNU R |
| Package | r-cran-multicore |
| Version | 0.1-7-2 |
| Description | GNU R parallel processing on multi-core or multi-cpu machines |
| Sub Section | Gnu-r |