I don't know the multicore package, but if possible, it might be
easier to upgrade to 2.15 and use the new built-in parallel package
that was introduced in R 2.14.
Then your syntax would be something like
mclapply(files, illumqc)
Michael
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Wyatt McMahon <wmcmahon at vbi.vt.edu>
wrote:> Hello everyone,
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> I'm trying to parallelize an R script I have written. ?To do this, I am
> first trying to use the multicore package, because I've had some
previous
> success with that.
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> The function I'm trying to parallelize is illumqc. ?I'd like to
create a
> separate process for each of 8 files, contained in the vector
"files".
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> Below is my code:
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> for(i in 1:length(files)){
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> mcparallel(illumqc(files[i]))}
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> I get the following error:
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> Error in sendMaster(serialize(try(eval(expr, env), silent = TRUE), NULL,
> :
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> ?ignoring SIGPIPE signal
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> Calls: mcparallel -> sendMaster -> .Call
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> In addition: Warning message:
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> In min(which(alf != 0)) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
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> However, if I try and make a simpler example, everything works correctly,
> so I'm not sure what's going wrong with this function. ?Do I need
to post
> the contents of the function as well? ?I'm hoping someone can recognize
> this error and give me a clue as to what is going wrong since the function
> is fairly long.
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> Thanks in advance,
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>
>
> Wyatt
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>> sessionInfo()
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> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
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> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
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> locale:
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> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 ? ? ? LC_NUMERIC=C
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> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 ? ? ? ?LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
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> [5] LC_MONETARY=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ?LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
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> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 ? ? ? LC_NAME=C
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> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ? LC_TELEPHONE=C
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> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
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> attached base packages:
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> [1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base
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> other attached packages:
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> [1] ShortRead_1.10.4 ? ?Rsamtools_1.4.3 ? ? lattice_0.19-30
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> [4] Biostrings_2.20.4 ? GenomicRanges_1.4.8 IRanges_1.10.6
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> [7] multicore_0.1-7
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> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
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> [1] Biobase_2.12.2 grid_2.13.1 ? ?hwriter_1.3
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