Thanks

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Jochen Knaus <jo@imbi.uni-freiburg.de>wrote:

> 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@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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