Dirk:

Thanks.  I had it installed on my machine from a few months ago, and didn't
even realize it had been pulled until I had my RA install it.  I have my
own code that uses snowfall as a requirement, which is also an issue.  I'm
just starting to work with foreach, but I am teaching a class in the use of
R, and snowfall makes dealing with clusters a WHOLE lot easier than the
default snow package -- I don't mind using snow for advanced work, but for
introducing non-CS students to parallel coding, snowfall help a lot,
particularly for starting, finding, and stopping clusters.

--jonathan





On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 7 February 2013 at 14:49, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> | R-sig-hpc'ers:
> |
> | I just realized that I can no longer install snowfall and it appears to
> be
> | gone from CRAN (
> | http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/snowfall/index.html)-- is this
> | project dead, or has it been wrapped into something else, or is it just
> | between versions?  Thanks!
> |
> | > install.packages("snowfall")
> | Installing package(s) into 'D:/Users/jgrn/Documents/R/win-library/2.15'
> | (as 'lib' is unspecified)
> | Warning message:
> | package 'snowfall' is not available (for R version 2.15.2)
>
> Removal from CRAN is something that happens to packages which fail to build
> under R(-release) and the ever changing R-devel (aka R 3.0.0, due out in
> April).
>
> My CRANberries services monitors removals as well additions and updates to
> CRAN, so yes, I knew.
>
> The package is likely still available in the Archive/ section so you can
> download it from there and install that way.  A little bird told that the
> snowfall author is planning to updated the package "time permitting".
>
> And there are of course the package parallel (in R base), snow, foreach,
> ...
>
> Dirk
>
> --
> Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
>



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