[R] problem with caretNWS on linux

Patrick Shields pat at revolution-computing.com
Thu May 8 22:42:31 CEST 2008


Peter,
Are you running the NWS server on the same machine as the R session (ie 
the machine running 'twistd -y /etc/nws.tac')?

Pat

Peter Tait wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using caretNWS on a RHEL x86_64 system and I am getting an error 
> message that is nearly identical to the one occuring in
> http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/caretNWS-00check.txt 
>
>
> Error in socketConnection(serverHost, port = port, open = "a+b", 
> blocking = TRUE) :
>  unable to open connection
> Calls: system.time ... .local -> tryCatch -> tryCatchList -> 
> socketConnection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In socketConnection(serverHost, port = port, open = "a+b", blocking = 
> TRUE) :
>  penguin:8765 cannot be opened
>
> The software versions I am using are the following:
> Python 2.3.4
> twistd (the Twisted daemon) 1.3.0rc1
> nwsserver-1.5.2
> R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
> nws 1.6.3
>
> Thank you for the help.
> Peter
>
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