[Rd] package snow/parallel doesnt make any clusters

[Uwe Ligges]

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additional permissions (and Admin includes those).

Best,
Uwe Ligges



On 16.09.2011 09:28, Maarten Schipper wrote:
> I am running R.And  I want to make parallel computations.
> When using the snow package under R-2.13.1patched or the parallel package
> under R 2.14.0dev, R isn't able to create a cluster. When typing:
>
> cl<- makeCluster(4)
>
> R doesn't respond. It doesn't crash either.
>
> specs:
>
> OS: 32 bit, Windows XP Prof, SP3.
> Processor: Intel Core i3 cpu, quad core.
>
>
> My colleague works on exactly the same system and operating system, and he
> hasn't encountered any problems. What can be the problem?
>
> Best regards,
> Maarten Schipper
>
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