[R] [Fwd: snowfall on Win7]

[Jochen Knaus]

Dear Ola,

I cannot say anything about Windows 7, as we do not have any Win7
machines here in our institute and I even do not know someone who have
Win7 on a private machine. I will try to find a machine with this OS and
test it.

Anybody having experiences with Win7 yet?

Greetings Jo

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [R] snowfall on Win7
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:25:37 +0100
> From: Ola Olsson <Ola.Olsson at zooekol.lu.se>
> To: r-help at r-project.org <r-help at r-project.org>
>
> Dear list,
>
> Does the snowfall package work under Windows 7?
>
> Recently I upgraded from Windows Vista to Windows 7, and at the same
> time  upgraded R from 2.8.1 to 2.10. On my machine (Intel i7 based)
> snowfall worked perfectly on my previous installation, but after the
> upgrade the same scripts do not work.
>
> When I issue e.g.
>
> sfInit(parallel=T, cpus=2)  # (or 'cpus=7', which I often used before
> as the processor has 8 cores)
>
> R appears to be working, but uses no processor power. It stays like
> that (have waited many minutes) until I interrupt by hitting the
> Esc-key. After that it has not initiated parallel computing.
>
> Is snowfall incompatible with Windows 7 or is there something I can do?
>
> /Ola
>
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