The problem is that there is no "USER" environment variable on Windows systems. Here are instructions: http://superuser.com/questions/165909/how-can-i-set-user-environmental-variables-such-as-path-from-a-non-administrat
I would set the USER variable to be your login username. --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:58 PM, Jianghao Shen <[email protected]> wrote: > hello everyone , I'm trying to run swarming to get the model parameters , > but there error about importing permutations_runner: > > from nupic.swarming import permutations_runner > ERROR:com.numenta.nupic.tools.configuration_base:Error while parsing > configuration file: None. > Traceback (most recent call last): > File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nupic\support\configuration_base.py", line > 338, in _readConfigFile > " variable %r, which is not defined" % (varname)) > RuntimeError: Attempting to use the value of the environment variable > 'USER', which is not defined > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#44>", line 1, in <module> > from nupic.swarming import permutations_runner > File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nupic\swarming\permutations_runner.py", line > 42, in <module> > from nupic.swarming import HypersearchWorker > File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nupic\swarming\HypersearchWorker.py", line > 41, in <module> > from HypersearchV2 import HypersearchV2 > File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nupic\swarming\HypersearchV2.py", > line 47, in <module> > from nupic.swarming.exp_generator.ExpGenerator import expGenerator > File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nupic\swarming\exp_generator\ExpGenerator.py", > line 59, in <module> > METRIC_WINDOW = int(Configuration.get("nupic.opf.metricWindow")) > File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nupic\support\configuration_base.py", line > 161, in get > return cls.getString(prop) > File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nupic\support\configuration_base.py", line > 80, in getString > cls._readStdConfigFiles() > File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nupic\support\configuration_custom.py", line > 143, in _readStdConfigFiles > super(Configuration, cls)._readStdConfigFiles() > File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nupic\support\configuration_base.py", line > 428, in _readStdConfigFiles > cls.readConfigFile(DEFAULT_CONFIG) > File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nupic\support\configuration_base.py", line > 218, in readConfigFile > properties = cls._readConfigFile(filename, path) > File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nupic\support\configuration_base.py", line > 338, in _readConfigFile > " variable %r, which is not defined" % (varname)) > RuntimeError: Attempting to use the value of the environment variable > 'USER', which is not defined > > > > does anybody know how to solve this? thanks > > Shen >
