Dear list,

I am often receiving the error on code using the snowfall package that looks
like:

Error in unserialize(node$con) : error reading from connection
>
Calls: montecarlotest ... recvData -> recvData.SOCKnode -> unserialize ->
> .Call
>
Execution halted
>
>
The same code does not always produce this error.  Earlier posts on this
list suggested that removing ~/.sfCluster would fix this, and that seems to
work.  However, I am running multiple instances R scripts that use snowfall
(either multiple R instances on the same machine or on different servers
that share a common directory over NFS), and I am hesitant to delete
~/.sfCluster on the directory to start a new run while I already have codes
running.  I don't quite understand what snowfall is using this temporary
directory for, or why it creates this error.

Any advice?


Thanks much,
Carl
-- 
Carl Boettiger
UC Davis
http://www.carlboettiger.info/

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