[R] Ubu edgy + latest CRAN R + Rmpi = no go

[Tim Keitt]

On 6/8/07, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 7 June 2007 at 17:22, Tim Keitt wrote:
> | I'm just curious if anyone else has had problems with this
> | configuration. I added the CRAN repository to apt and installed 2.5.0
> | with apt-get. I then did an install.packages("Rmpi") on cluster nodes.
> | Rmpi loads and lamhosts() shows the nodes, but mpi.spawn.Rslaves()
> | fails (something to do with temp files?). Rmpi works fine with the
>
> I have had similar issues at work. If you fix the lam packages at version
> 7.1.1, it works.  It does not seem to work with 7.1.2 in the current Ubuntu,
> not does it work with 7.1.4 (current upstream version).
>
> As other MPI tools seem to work, I would put the error on Rmpi, but I have
> not had time to pin this down.
>
> For what it's worth, a few of us are trying to revive the OpenMPI packages in
> Debian, and I have started to on a port of Rmpi to ROpenMPI.  No ETA for that.
>
> | Edgy-native version of R (2.3.x) and installing Edgy's r-cran-rmpi
> | with apt. (But I need some other packages that only work in 2.4+!)
> | Could this be a problem with the latest Ubu debs on CRAN? The Rmpi
>
> R itself is just fine on Ubuntu, thank you.

And very much appreciated. ;-)

THK

>
> Dirk
>
> | author says his R 2.5 setup works fine. CC me please as I'm not
> | subscribed.
> |
> | THK
> |
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