[R] snowfall sfInit error

[Jochen Knaus]

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, chibco at 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
>>
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