Re: [R] snow::makeCluster on Windows hangs

2013-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Flint
Prof Ripley: Thank you for the help. - I used the manual option because it was suggested in some postings because it shows the parameters being used. The behavior was the same with and without the manual option (I needed to use ESC to get out). - Would there be some limitation in my

[R] snow::makeCluster on Windows hangs

2013-09-26 Thread Jeffrey Flint
The command which hangs: I'm hoping there is a simple explanation, but I searched on-line and nothing jumped out. cl - makeCluster(type=SOCK,c(localhost),manual=TRUE) Manually start worker on localhost with C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-214~1.2/bin/Rscript.exe C:/Program

Re: [R] snow::makeCluster on Windows hangs

2013-09-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You failed to mention this about contributed package 'snow' (and a long obsolete version of R: see the postin guide). That version of R has package 'parallel' which would be preferred. But it looks like you did not manually start the workers (and I am not sure why you would want to do