On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Jersey Fanatic <jerseyfanat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Guy Yollin states in his Luxor slides the following: > "As of 2013-08-12, apply.paramset does not appear to run properly in > parallel on > Windows. To run on a Windows platform, load the doParallel package but do > not call > the registerDoParallel function; apply.paramset will then be able to run in > sequential > rather than parallel mode." > > Is there any news on this topic, I cannot seem to find any info about > developments on this topic, is it fixed, or was another way found to do > parallel computing for apply.paramset()? > No, it's not fixed, as the main package authors try to avoid using Windows whenever possible. Someone with interest and inclination would need to submit patches to allow apply.paramset to work with doParallel on Windows.
That said, others have had success running in parallel on Windows using the doRedis backend. For those interested/inclined, that may be a good place to start the attempt to get apply.paramset working with doParallel on Windows. > Note: I am running RStudio on Windows 7. apply.paramset() seems to work > when registerDoParallel() is not called, but the computing time is taking > too long for each combination of parameters. > > Any help is appreciated. Thanks! :) > > Koji Nakata > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Finance@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance > -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. > -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions > should go. -- Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich FOSS Trading | www.fosstrading.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Finance@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions should go.
