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Hi, I would like to get suggestion about parallel computing package on a multicore windows workstation. I tried doSMP, but it crashes R a lot. I am wondering if "snow" and "snowfall" can be used on a single workstation (i,e, not cluster). At suggestion would be appreciated, Best, Richard [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello dear R community. I just started playing with the snowfall package (a wrapper for the snow package), and found it very convenient. (See also this great website: http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/parallel/ ) I was wondering if it is possible to connect snowfall with the foreach package (since it has some connection to snow). My final goal is to do some simple parallel simulations on my two

Hello all, I am re-posting my previous question with a simpler, more transparent, commented code. I have been ramming my head against this problem, and I wondered if anyone could lend a hand. I want to make parallel a bootstrap of a linear mixed model on my 8-core mac. Below is the process that I want to make parallel (namely, the boot.out<-boot(dat.res,boot.fun, R = nboot) command).

Hola a tod en s, estoy realizando unas operaciones con muchos datos con el paquete "vegan", concretamente la función "metaMDS" y me gustaría saber si puedo usar más de un procesador a la vez para acelerar los cálculos. He visto el paquete "multicore" pero no sé usarlo, ¿alguien lo ha usado para algo así? Gracias y saludos, Javier -- http://oikos.inf.um.es

People of R(th), I have been ramming my head against this problem, and I wondered if anyone could lend a hand. I want to parallelize a bootstrap of a linear model on my 8-core mac. Below is the process that I want to parallelize (namely, the m2.ph.rlm.boot<-boot(m2.ph,m2.ph.fun, R = nboot) command). This is an extension of the bootstrapping linear models example in Venables and Ripley to

Hi, I'm working in R 2.11.1 x64 on Windows x86_64-pc-mingw32. I'm experiencing a strange problem in R that I'm not even sure how to begin to fix. I've got a huge (forty-pages printed) simulation written in R that I'd like to run multiple times. When I open up R and run it on its own, it works fine. At the beginning of the program, there's a variable X that I set to 1,

Dear all, I am trying to execute the simple example in snowfall http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/snowfall/vignettes/snowfall.pdf ... require(snow) require(snowfall) sfInit( parallel=TRUE, cpus=2 ) sfLapply( 1:10, exp ) sfStop() I have installed the snow and snowfall packages in R on a machine with windows xp, however, after running the "sfInit( parallel=TRUE, cpus=2 )" line I

Greetings, I am trying to use Reference Class methods in Snowfall, using R 2.12.1 on Ubuntu Natty. Using then directly seems to work (stanza 2 below), but using them indirectly does not (stanza 3 below). I get an "attempt to apply non-function" error. In addition to exporting the instance of the object I created to the Snowfall slaves, I also made several attempts to export the

I've been trying to split a space delimited string with double-quotes in R for some time but without success. An example of a string is as follows: /rainfall snowfall "Channel storage" "Rivulet storage"/ It's important for us because these are column headings that must match the subsequent data. Here is some code I've been trying: str <- 'rainfall

Hi there, I am trying to import 100 files with the names of "vpn 1 .dat" to "vpn 100 .dat" into a respective table calld vpn1 to vpn100. I therfore have created a variable X<-1:100 I not want to use X as a subtitute for the number in my filename, so that I have to write only one function and it does the operation with all files. I have tried every combination i could

Dear All, I have a question of how to export S4 class specification to clusters/workers in parallel computing. The package I used is snowfall. The problem is reproducible as follows. Any hint is greatly appreciated. Edwin Sun === begin =========== library(snowfall) sfInit(parallel = TRUE, cpus = 2) setClass("catt", representation(aa = "numeric")) setClass("dogg",

Dear users, I want to set up R to use one R-script directory and one R-library (directory for packages) for many end-users. I try to do this by using one network-share. This works fine as long as we don't use the snowfall package with parallel=TRUE (sfInit(parallel=TRUE, cpus=4, type="SOCK")). When running R with default settings (local library and local script directory)

Hello. I want to write my notes in Sweave in my own language (spanish). But my language has accents and when I run Sweave in R to translate my Snw file into the tex file the accents are translated into unrecognizable characters. For example, the word "cami?n" (truck) is translated into "cami??n" Somebody knows how can I do it? One solution I don't like is using a

Dear expeRts, I'm currently trying to get data from a PostgreSQL database _in parallel_. I tried two methods: * passing the DBI Connection object to the cluster nodes * connecting the the DB on each node (1) The execution of the first method looks like this: > result = sfClusterApplyLB(input, fun, dbiCon) and produces an "expired PostgreSQLConnection" error. (Of course the

Dear Ola, I cannot say anything about Windows 7, as we do not have any Win7 machines here in our institute and I even do not know someone who have Win7 on a private machine. I will try to find a machine with this OS and test it. Anybody having experiences with Win7 yet? Greetings Jo > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [R] snowfall on Win7 > Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:25:37

I have an R script that consists of a for loop that repeats a process for many different files. I want to process this parallely on machine with multiple cores, is there any package for it ? Thanks -- Sandeep R Patil [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi I am trying to utilize my dual core processor (and later a High-performance clusters (HPC) ) by using the Rmpi, snow, snowfall, ... packages, but I am struggling at the beginning, i.e. to initialise the "cluster" on my dual core computer. Whenever I try to initialize it (via sfInit(parallel=TRUE, cpus=2) or mpi.spawn.Rslaves(nslaves=2) ), I get an error message: >

Guys, Is anyone using snowfall? It seems that the last version is broken. sfinit contains test code: data("config", package = "snowfall") configM <- as.matrix(t(config)) config <- as.list(configM) names(config) <- dimnames(configM)[[2]] .sfOption$SERVER <<- as.character(config[["SERVER"]]) .sfOption$PORT <<-

Sir, I want to apply mclapply() function for my analysis. So, I have to install multicore package. But I can not install the package. >install.packages("multicore") It gives that package multicore is not available. Can you help me? Regards, Suman Dhara [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I want to parallelize some computations when it's possible on multicore machines. Each computation produces a big objects that I don't want to store if not necessary: in the end only the object that best fits my data have to be returned. In non-parallel mode, a single gloabl object is updated if the current computation gets a better result than the best previously found. My plan