Dear Ola, I cannot say anything about Windows 7, as we do not have any Win7 machines here in our institute and I even do not know someone who have Win7 on a private machine. I will try to find a machine with this OS and test it.
Anybody having experiences with Win7 yet? Greetings Jo > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [R] snowfall on Win7 > Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:25:37 +0100 > From: Ola Olsson <ola.ols...@zooekol.lu.se> > To: r-help@r-project.org <r-help@r-project.org> > > Dear list, > > Does the snowfall package work under Windows 7? > > Recently I upgraded from Windows Vista to Windows 7, and at the same > time upgraded R from 2.8.1 to 2.10. On my machine (Intel i7 based) > snowfall worked perfectly on my previous installation, but after the > upgrade the same scripts do not work. > > When I issue e.g. > > sfInit(parallel=T, cpus=2) # (or 'cpus=7', which I often used before > as the processor has 8 cores) > > R appears to be working, but uses no processor power. It stays like > that (have waited many minutes) until I interrupt by hitting the > Esc-key. After that it has not initiated parallel computing. > > Is snowfall incompatible with Windows 7 or is there something I can do? > > /Ola > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >
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