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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

Dear R users, we have a problem when building R packages which depend on platform specific packages. The following example will illustrate our problem: For parallel computing (in our own package) we want to use the multicore package. Since multicore is not available for Windows we subtitute it by the snowfall package. Currently we create two packages with different "Depends" argument

hi, Dear R users - I wonder is there a written R function to convert a number to a text, say convert 1 to "one" , 100 to "one hundred". I know in xls. has such a function BAHTTEXT, does anybody know is there a similar function in R ? Thanks. Lin --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

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

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]]

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

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

Hi, I work with data sets with lots of missing values. We often need to conduct logical tests on numeric vectors containing missing values. I've searched around for material and conversations on this topic, but I'm having a hard time finding anything. Has anyone written a package that deals with this sort of thing? All I want are a group of functions like the ones I've posted

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]]

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)

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",

On 16/07/2017 6:17 AM, Anthony Damico wrote: > thank you for taking the time to write this. i set it running last > night and it's still going -- if it doesn't finish by tomorrow, i will > try to find a site to host the problem file and add that link to the bug > report so the archive package can be avoided at least. i'm sorry for > the bother > How big is that

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

hi, the text file that prompts the segfault is 4gb but only 80,937 lines > file.info( "S:/temp/crash.txt") size isdir mode mtime ctime atime exe S:/temp/crash.txt 4078192743 FALSE 666 2017-07-15 17:24:35 2017-07-15 17:19:47 2017-07-15 17:19:47 no On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 6:34 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at

hi, thanks Dr. Murdoch i'd appreciate if anyone on r-help could help me narrow this down? i believe the segfault occurs because there's a single line with 4GB and also embedded nuls, but i am not sure how to artificially construct that? the lodown package can be removed from my example.. it is just for file download cacheing, so `lodown::cachaca` can be replaced with `download.file`

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: >

hi, thank you for attempting this. it looks like your unix machine unzipped the txt file without corruption -- if you copied over the same txt file to windows 7, i don't think that would reproduce the problem? i think it needs to be the corrupted text file where R.utils::countLines( txtfile ) gives 809367. i am able to reproduce on two distinct windows machines but no guarantee i'm

hi, i realized that the segfault happens on the text file in a new R session. so, creating the segfault-generating text file requires a contributed package, but prompting the actual segfault does not -- pretty sure that means this is a base R bug? submitted here: https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17311 hopefully i am not doing something remarkably stupid. the text file

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 <<-