Re: [R] Snow/Snowfall hangs on windows 7

2011-05-16 Thread Uwe Ligges
Folks, I guess I know what is going on (and why I haven't seen this so far): All of you have installed R in a directory with blanks in it, right? Please source() the attached sock.R and afterwards try again. Does it work with SOCK clusters now? Then it was just the lack of quotes. CCing

Re: [R] Snow/Snowfall hangs on windows 7

2011-05-16 Thread luke-tierney
Thanks to Thomas, Steve, Uwe, and others for reporting the problem and suggesting fixes. A new version of snow is on its way to CRAN that hopefully fixes the problem on Windows without breaking tings elsewhere. I don't have access to Windows at the moment so if things don't work and you are

Re: [R] Snow/Snowfall hangs on windows 7

2011-05-15 Thread David Anisman
Same problem as Anna here. Windows 7 64-bit. Running R 2.13.0. snow + snowfall installed. Testing: library(snow) library(snowfall) sfInit(parallel=TRUE, cpus=2, type=SOCK) Then R spins forever (yes, I disabled the Windows firewall). On the same box, tried the same on Ubuntu under Virtualbox.

Re: [R] Snow/Snowfall hangs on windows 7

2011-05-15 Thread David Anisman
btw, I installed R.10.1 on the same box (Windows 7, 64bit, 4 cores). snow/snowfall work fine. here is my sessionInfo() R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United

Re: [R] Snow/Snowfall hangs on windows 7

2011-05-12 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 28.04.2011 09:57, Truc wrote: Dear Anna ! I have the same problem with Window 7 - 64 bits. If I use R 2.12.2 with snow packages 0.3-3. It works well. But with R 2.13.0 with the same snow packages. It just hang. I start R (Run as administrator), turn off firewall ... But it seems R .13.0

Re: [R] Snow/Snowfall hangs on windows 7

2011-04-28 Thread Truc
Dear Anna ! I have the same problem with Window 7 - 64 bits. If I use R 2.12.2 with snow packages 0.3-3. It works well. But with R 2.13.0 with the same snow packages. It just hang. I start R (Run as administrator), turn off firewall ... But it seems R .13.0 version of socket connect to window has

[R] Snow/Snowfall hangs on windows 7

2011-04-08 Thread Anna Ă…gren
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,