[R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu 11.04, R 2.13.1 & SuppDists package?

[Elizabeth Tighe]

Thanks Christoph! -- but no RGui on this end ... am already and only 
running in terminal mode.

On 7/19/2011 6:00 PM, Christoph Knapp wrote:
> Hi Liz,
> I don't know about the SuppDist package. Never used it, but I see similar behaviour with the multicore package. The solution there is to run R in terminal and not in the an Rgui. Maybe you could try that.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Christoph
> ________________________________________
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 9:16
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> Subject: [R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu 11.04, R 2.13.1&  SuppDists package?
>
> Is anyone out there using the SuppDists package on Ubuntu for multi-core
> processing?
>
> I've been using for nearly a year without problem -- with many thanks to
> Mike Rutter for his earlier help!
>
> Recently have been having problems with spawned processes not closing
> upon completion of procedure that calls them (most often the LMER
> package) ... I'll see that RAM used by the procedure is still in use
> after the procedure is completed so I then go through the process list
> to kill the spawned processes manually.
>
> SuppDist was originally installed on previous version of Ubuntu (64 bit)
> and in previous version of R (64 bit).  I run updates regularly, through
> apt-get updates and within R update.packages and it seems it may have
> been with the upgrade to R 2.13 that it stopped working.
>
> I'm not expert user of Ubuntu, set it up primarily to be able to run R
> and stata analyses in batch mode remotely through SSH connections.
>
> If anyone might have any tips/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
> Liz Tighe
>
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