I did notice some strange behaviour once, but things were working without a problem for a while now. foreach loops and concepts are nice concepts, which I'd like to carry on using. Maybe somebody from the foreach-dopar packages could explain why they have such issues?
Tim do you have concrete examples of the issues you talked with other developers? Thank you. Renaud On 17/08/2011 12:45, Tim Triche, Jr. wrote: > yes -- doMC (and doSMP) are kind of bogus and I just use > multicore::mclapply() to good effect these days. I checked around > with other people doing similar things at the Bioconductor developer > day and pretty much everyone confirmed that doWHATEVER seems to have > issues, where as multicore itself... doesn't. > > Just my $0.02, > > --t > > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Renaud Gaujoux > <ren...@mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za <mailto:ren...@mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za>> > wrote: > > Hi, > > in R 2.12.1, R CMD check hangs when building a vignette that uses > a foreach loop with the doMC parallel backend. > This does not happen in R 2.13.1, nor if I use doSEQ instead of doMC. > All versions of multicore, doMC and foreach are the same on both > my R installations. > > Has anybody encountered a similar issue? > > Thank you. > Renaud > > > > > ### > UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN > This e-mail is subject to the UCT ICT policies and > e-mai...{{dropped:5}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org <mailto:R-devel@r-project.org> mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > > -- > > > If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is > only because they do not realize how complicated life is. > > John von Neumann > <http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7Ehistory/Biographies/Von_Neumann.html> > ### UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN This e-mail is subject to the UCT ICT policies and e-mai...{{dropped:9}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
