My problem with providing the code, is MCMC is a fairly integrated process,
so I dont know how I would pare it down to send...
Would it work to send the MCMC code, and the three *.csv files to go along
with it?

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:54 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:

>
> On Nov 25, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Michael Clawson wrote:
>
>  Uwe,
>>
>> by window I mean instances, by runs I mean, runs the my Markov-Chain Monte
>> Carlo simulator
>>
>
> It would probably be better to adopt the terminology that the things you
> are calling "windows" are "sessions".
>
>
>> I open two instances of R, run a million cycle chain in each instance, and
>> when they finish, neither window has the object I defined to store the
>> runs.
>>
>> I tested this morning and when I open two R windows and run a 5k cycle
>> chain in each instance, neither window has the object I defined to store
>> the runs.
>>
>> This does not happen when I only have one instance of R open
>>
>
> The most common cause of that behavior is failing to assign the output of
> a function to a name. There is an object named ".Last.value" that hosld the
> results of the last returned object even it it doesn't have another name.
>
> lapply(1:10,  I)
> test <- .Last.value
> test
> [[1]]
> [1] 1
>
> [[2]]
> [1] 2
> snipped rest of output
>
> But as Uwe said ... without the code, ... and your OS (to answer the
> question about memory)  .... and your sessionInfo() to make sure that this
> is not a GUI-related issue ... we cannot say very much.
>
>
>
>
>> 2011/11/25 Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.**de<ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
>> >
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On 25.11.2011 05:12, Aldo wrote:
>>>
>>>  Is there a maximum memory allocation for all R windows open? because it
>>>> is
>>>> like 1-3 million runs
>>>>
>>>>
>>> ????
>>> So you mean you open a million windows at the same time? In that case we
>>> really need your definition of "window".
>>>
>>>
>>> .... so... it may be reaching some sort of memory limit
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I do not know if any OS / window manager has the capability to open that
>>> many numbers of windows. But as I said, we need some difintions and
>>> examples.
>>>
>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>
> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
>
>

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