Re: [R] Problem with package SNOW on MacOS X 10.5.5

You shouldn't use c as a variable, because it is already used as the constructor of lists. So doing this issues will be quite certrain. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Re-Problem-with-package-SNOW-on-MacOS-X-10-5-5-tp891753p3306531.html Sent from the R help

Re: [R] Problem with package SNOW on MacOS X 10.5.5

Hi Greg, I don't know if this is related to your problem, but I get the same error (on both ubuntu and fedora linux, R 2.9) and just found a very curious behaviour - snowfall apply functions don't like the variable name c. E.g.: c-1 sfLapply(1:10, exp) issues the same error you had posted,

Re: [R] Problem with package SNOW on MacOS X 10.5.5

I don't see this on my setup (OS X 10.5.6, R 2.8.0, snow 0.3-3). As snow does not use a name space it is possible that something else you have loaded is masking a snow internal function. Another possibility might be that your worker processes are picking up different versions of R or snow. You

[R] Problem with package SNOW on MacOS X 10.5.5

Hello All, I can run the lower level functions OK, but many of the higher level (eg. parSApply) functions are generating errors. When running the example (from the snow help docs) for parApply on MacOSX 10.5.5, I get the following error: cl - makeSOCKcluster(c(localhost,localhost))