similar to: Parallel computing with rgenoud and snow: external file I/O possible?

I've been using RGenoud for a while and it worked smoothly so far. However I came across a strange problem lately (for me at least...). It fails after the first individual and I get the following error message when I set MemoryMatrix = FALSE : Error in genoud(fn, nvars = 8, max = TRUE, pop.size = 10, : REAL() can only be applied to a 'numeric', not a 'character' when I

Dear R user fellows, I would like to ask you about the package 'rgenoud' which is a genetic optimization tool. I ran the function 'genoud' with two variables to be minimized by the following command. result<-genoud(fn,nvars=2,starting.values=c(0.5,0), pop.size=1000, max.generations=10, wait.generations=3) Then, I had the following error message. Error in

I have been using the rgenoud package for a nonlinear least-squares problem with lots of local minima, and it works very well but takes lots of time. According to the article refrenced in the documentation, the original GENOUD-software by the same authors seems to allow for user-supplied analytical derivatives instead of numerical approximations, which would probably save some time. Does anybody

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

Hello, After getting help to solve part of my problem and some delay on my part, I am posting a more refined version to see if someone can help me further. I am trying to autocalibrate a model in my subject area using the snow and rgenoud packages. I want to use the key function "fn" that is called by genoud() to finalize input, run the model executable, and compute the objective

Dear All I am using rgenoud to solve the following maximization problem: myfunc <- function(x) { x1 <- x[1] x2 <- x[2] if (x1^2+x2^2 > 1) return(-9999999) else x1+x2 } genoud(myfunc, nvars=2, Domains=rbind(c(0,1),c(0,1)),max=TRUE,boundary.enforcement=2,solution.tolerance=0.000001) How can one increase the precision of the solution $par [1] 0.7072442 0.7069694 ? I

Dear R group, since I do only have a moderately fast MacBook and I would like to get my results faster than within 72h per run ( :-((( ), I tried Amazon AWS, which offers pretty fast computers via remote access. I don't want to post any code because its several hundreds lines of code, I am not looking for the "optimal" answer, but maybe some suggestions from you if faced similar

Dear everyone, I am trying to run rgenoud on several chips simultaneusly. I used the instructions provided on Jasjeet Sekhon's Homepage (http://sekhon.berkeley.edu/rgenoud/multiple_cpus.html). However, I have the newer version of R (R 2.12) installed - for a 64-bit machine. So, when I tried to install the special version of "snow" from a zip file provided by Jasjeet on his page, R

Hello - and sorry for a possibly stupid question, I'm just starting to learn rgenoud. I am defining a function with 5 parameters (p1, p2, p3, p4a, and p4b) and then want to optimize it using genoud. But I am doing something wrong. Before genoud is even able to run it says: "Error in p2 + 1.2 : 'p2' is missing". I assume I did not specify it right. My code is below. The task

Dear group, does anybody know how to export libraries/functions to all nodes when launching snow? I want to use a function from fBasics (dstable) for a rGenoud optimization routine, but I fail "making the function accessible" to the nodes created. I know how it works for variables, I know how it works in snowfall(which cant be used in that case), but I dont know how it culd work in

Dear Friends, I have been trying to learn how to use the derivative free optimization algorithms implemented in the package RGENOUD by Mebane and Sekhon. However, it does not seem to work for reasons best described as my total ignorance. If anybody has experience using this package, it would be really helpful if you can point out where I'm making a mistake. Thanks in advance Anup Sample

Should I be worried? The installation seems to go through fine and apparently nothing is broken. The errors I repeatedly get are like this: g++ -no-cpp-precomp -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include -I/usr/ local/include -DUNIX -DOPTIM -DNONR -fno-common -g -O2 -c unif.cpp -o unif.o g++ -bundle -flat_namespace -undefined suppress -L/usr/local/lib -o rgenoud.so c hange_order.o

Hi R users, "genoud" function of "rgenoud" package will optimize my function. If opt = genoud(fn,2,max=TRUE,starting.value=c(1,10),........) opt$value will give the optimized value of the function, "fn". My problem is from the same opt, can I get the value of the function at the initial parameter values? I need the initial value of the function for

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

Hello! I have 2 variables - predictor "pred" and response variable "DV": pred<-c(439635.053, 222925.718, 668434.755, 194242.330, 5786.321, 115537.344, 100835.368, 7133.206, 159058.286, 4079991.629, 3380078.060, 2661279.136, 2698324.478, 1245213.965, 1901815.503, 1517019.451, 1396857.736, 1034030.988, 432249.574, 342329.325, 1831335.792, 2209578.859, 1641709.754,

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

Dear All,   Currently I am running the following code:   library(stats4) library(odesolve) library(rgenoud) Input<-data.frame(SUB=c(1),time=c(0.5,3,10,15),lev=c(2.05,12.08,9.02,8)) XD<-500 IT<-3 diffeqfun<-function(time, y, parms) {   if(time<=IT)      dCpdt <- (XD/IT)/parms["Vol"] -

Hello, I am trying to optimise a nonlinear model to derive 'best-fit' parameter esimates using the genoud function. I have been using the genetic algorithm - gafit - in order to do this, but I am getting parameter estimates that do not always reach the global minimum. I am very keen to apply genoud to optimising this model to see if my results will improve, and also out of personal

Hi, Using R 2.15.1 on Windows 7. Have installed both versions 32 and 64bit. In both of them among others I have installed a package rgenoud When I open R gui of 32bit and write library(rgenoud) it responds by showing a functional rgenoud version 5.7-8. The same it does on Rgui 64bit. Now I am working in cygwin (v. 1.12.4.0) with xwin. Normally before when I had installed a package, I only had

Hi Timo & Dovecot users, We have a 2-node director setup which front-ends for 4 nodes which share a clustered filesystem (GFS). All nodes run Dovecot 2.0.18. Approximately 40k users, but typically only a few thousand active at any time. The director nodes run sendmail, which deliver mail "locally" using LMTP to the director, which then feeds to SMTP on the real servers (also