[R-SIG-Mac] Rmpi package

[David Winsemius]

On Aug 18, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Rohmatul Fajriyah wrote:

> 
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I tried to install the Rmpi for Mac OS X, by following this:
> http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/yu/Rmpi/
> 
> 
> I successfully installed the Xcodeand verified thegcc.
> When I installed the Homebrew, I got the message as below:
> 
> Rohmatuls-MacBook-Pro:~ rfajriyah$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

"ruby"??? "mxcl"???

What does this have to do with R? (Or for that matter, the directions referenced?) Generally Simon advises against using brew, fink, or other Mac/NIX package installers. Rmpi is not listed as available in CRAN at the moment, apparently because it took more than 30 minutes to unload:

http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-x86_64/Rmpi-00check.html

You should do a better job of explaining your system and resources and goals of this effort.

> -e:67: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local/bin in PATH, mode 040777
> -e:96: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local/bin in PATH, mode 040777
> ==> This script will install:
> /usr/local/bin/brew
> /usr/local/Library/...
> /usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1
> ==> The following directories will be made group writable:
> /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> /usr/local/share/info
> ==> The following directories will have their group set to admin:
> /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> /usr/local/share/info
> 
> Press ENTER to continue or any other key to abort
> -e:34: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local/bin in PATH, mode 040777
> 
> then I quitted (aborted the process).
> 
> After read some sources, I guessed, I should change the PATH first. 
> But there are things that I am not sure about:
> a. Should I un-install the Xcode, change the PATH and re-install it again?
> b. When I change the PATH to  /usr/local/bin, what will happen to my R at /usr/bin? Should I un-installed (delete) and re-install it at /usr/local/bin?

I doubt that you need to do any of that. Certainly you need to do a better job of describing your OS, your system tools, which MPI you have installed or are intending to use, and what versions of R and Rmpi that you have. 

Also explain why you are not using the standard parallel package.

-- 
David
> 
> Apologise for the really basic questions.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.
> With kind regards,
> Ema
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
> _______________________________________________
> R-SIG-Mac mailing list
> R-SIG-Mac at r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac

David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA