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Hello, I am trying to do model autocalibration using the snow and rgenoud packages. The function I want to run in task-parallel fashion across multiple machines is one that pre- and post-processes data and runs an external model code. My problem is that external file I/O is happening only in the master node and not in the slaves. I have followed Jasjeet Sekhon's suggestion to test the

I am trying to use rgenoud and snow with an external model and file I/O. Unlike the typical application of rgenoud and snow, I need to run an external executable and do pre- and post-processing of input and output files for each parameter set generated by genoud(). I'm hoping that someone can suggest improvements to my approach and a work-around for file I/O problems I've encountered when

Hi Colin! I would like to know, that these following "vulnerabilities" does affect FreeBSD's reliability? If the answer is "yes", what version of FreeBSD affected, when will be fixed, etc. http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-12-01-2007.html http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-10-01-2007.html Thank you! -- kobi

I would like to limit the significant figures of the calibrated parameters determined by genoud() in the Rgenoud package. Below is some example output, where column 1 is model run number, columns 2-7 are the parameter values, and columns 8-12 are model fit statistics. I would like genoud to internally limit parameters to 4 decimal places as shown in this output. It is clear that the function is

I am trying to use the optimizing function genoud() with the snow package on a couple of i686 machines running Redhat Linux WS4 . I don't know anything about PVM or MPI, so I just followed the directions in snow and rgenoud for the simplest method and started a socket cluster. My function fn for genoud involves updating an input file for a separate numerical model with the latest parameter

I am trying to run a monte carlo process using snow with a MPI cluster. I have ~thirty processors to run the algorithm on and I want to run it 5000 times and take the average of the output. A very simple way to do this is to divide 5000 by the number of processors to get a number n and tell each processor to run the algorithm n times. I realize there are more efficient ways to manage the

I installed R-2.1.0 from source on a Linux box running Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 but install.packages() wouldn't work (see below). When I install R-2.0.1 from RPM on the same system, everything is fine. Version 2.1.0 (2005-04-18), ISBN 3-900051-07-0 . . . > options(CRAN = "http://cran.fhcrc.org/") > install.packages("rgenoud") --- Please select a CRAN

Hi, I often use the mod() and instring() functions that are available in the clim.pact package. This package has a lot of dependencies, including installation of netCDF, and I haven't yet been able to get library(clim.pact) to work on a Mac OS 10.4.6. A previous request for help with the Mac problem yielded no results, so now I wonder if I could just extract the definitions for the couple

I am trying to process text fields scanned in from a csv file that is output from the Windows database program FileMakerPro. The characters onscreen look like regular text, but R does not like their underlying binary form. For example, one of text fields contains a name and a number, but R recognizes the number as something other than what it appears to be in plain text. The character string

I would like to use a map or aerial photo as a background to plotting solid lines and text, and semi-transparent color contours, in base and lattice graphics. Plot coordinates need to be consistent with the georeferenced background. For example, a color contour plot would have an gray-toned aerial photograph as a background for overprinted semi-transparent color contours of some spatially

Hi, I'm trying to install rimage on a Mac OS X 10.4 machine. I followed the advice in previous R-help threads and got over the hurdles of having the header files in the right places, among other things. But I can't figure out what to do with this error. ice.pnl.gov:/home/waichler<949>system_profiler -detailLevel mini SPSoftwareDataType Software: System Software Overview:

I am using levelplot() from lattice with grids that have unequal cell sizes. This means that the boundary between two cells is not always half-way between nodes, as levelplot() assumes. The result is that some cell sizes are rendered incorrectly, which can be painfully obvious if using relatively large cells. Is there any work-around? I am using the conditioning capability of lattice and

I would like to generate a vector having the same length as the number of rows in a matrix. The vector should contain an integer indicating the "group" of the row, where identical matrix rows are in a group, and a unique row has a unique integer. Thus, for a <- c(1,2) b <- c(1,3) c <- c(1,2) d <- c(1,2) e <- c(1,3) f <- c(2,1) mat <- rbind(a,b,c,d,e,f) I would

I am looking for examples of how to plot with contour3d() to a PNG or PDF file, add axes and other elements to the isosurface plot, and use contour3d in conjunction with lattice. Regarding lattice, I'm not necessarily looking for conditioning on the data shown in the isosurface plots, just a way to show multiple plots in one figure and label them. I am new to the packages misc3d and rgl.

Hi all, I am trying to use snow package to do a parallel MCMC. I have read a few guides and articles, the following is that I came up with. When I run it I got the error message: Error in checkForRemoteErrors(lapply(cl, recvResult)) : 4 nodes produced errors; first error: could not find function "ui.Next" The data is a longitudinal data with few repeated readings on a number of

Dear All, I have three classes of questions about generating random numbers with different packages (windows xp 32bit R). . 1. Suppose I would like to use package *foreach*, can I use current Sys.time as a seed? Although I can get the time up to1e-6 second precesion, the code below dose not work well on a local machine with two cores. ################# library(foreach) library(snow)

I can't find a way to change just the panel background color in lattice. I would like NA regions in levelplot() to appear black. I've tried the trellis.par.set() stuff, but it it makes the background of the whole graphic black. Thanks, Scott Waichler Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scott.waichler _at _ pnl.gov

I would like to create a barchart that has vertical instead of horizontal bars. My goal is something similar to Figure 6.10 (p. 166) in "The Basics of S and S-plus," except for the orientation of the bars. I don't think bwplot() or xyplot() will work. Any suggestions? Scott Waichler Hydrology Group/Environmental Technology Division Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Hi, The following function use to work, but now it doesn't giving the error "> CallSnow(, 100) Using snow package, asking for 2 nodes 2 slaves are spawned successfully. 0 failed. Error in checkForRemoteErrors(val) : 2 nodes produced errors; first error: no applicable method for 'lapply' applied to an object of class "list" ". Where this is the

Hello, I have several systems which I recently updated with yum -y update to all the latest packages. These systems use yum-priorities and use the CentOS (priority 1) EPEL (priority 5) and rpmforge (priority 10) repositories. After the updates, dhcpd stopped working with a SIGPIPE error which occurs shortly after it attempts to fork into the background. I worked around that problem by building