Thanks On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Jochen Knaus <j...@imbi.uni-freiburg.de>wrote:
> Dear Mr. Ripley, > > indeed that it true. sfInit() currently have a bug on Windows depending on > the usage of the Linux tools and the broken Exceptionhandling. Too bad I > never tested it accordingly on Windows (as we do not have any Windows > machines in our institute). > > snowfall 1.62 is in the pipe with many other fixes (e.g. NetWorkSpaces > usage) and I will include a Windows workaround in it. > > It will go out for testing at the beginning of the week and should be on > CRAN end of the week. > > Best regards, Jochen Knaus > > > > > On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, chi...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Dear all, >>> >>> I am trying to execute the simple example in snowfall >>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/snowfall/vignettes/snowfall.pdf... >>> >>> require(snow) >>> require(snowfall) >>> sfInit( parallel=TRUE, cpus=2 ) >>> sfLapply( 1:10, exp ) >>> sfStop() >>> >>> I have installed the snow and snowfall packages in R on a machine with >>> windows xp, however, after running the "sfInit( parallel=TRUE, cpus=2 )" >>> line I get an error ... >>> >>> Error in system("whoami", intern = TRUE, ignore.stderr = TRUE) : >>> whoami not found >>> Error in paste(sep = "_", "XXXXXXXXR", uname, format(Sys.time(), >>> "%H%M%S_%m%d%y")) : >>> object "uname" not found >>> >>> I am the only (administrator) user of the computer. It has a dual core >>> processor, and is not networked. >>> >>> I would be greatful if someone could tell me how to proceed. >>> >> >> Follow the posting guide (see the footer of this message) and talk to the >> maintainer of 'snowfall'. Most likely it is not intended to be used on >> Windows, but has not declared that. 'whoami' and 'uname' are Unix programs, >> not Windows ones, but R's Sys.info() provides equivalent information. >> >> >>> Kind regards >>> >>> Chibisi >>> >>> [[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. >>> >>> >> > [[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.
