[R-SIG-Mac] Rmpi package

[Michael Weylandt]

Hi Ema,

Can you try resenting this -- the quoting seems to have gotten messed up. 

MW

On Aug 18, 2013, at 17:39, Rohmatul Fajriyah <rfajriyah at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> 
> Dear Sir,
> 
> Thank you very much for your respond.
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
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> Cc: "r-sig-mac at r-project.org" <r-sig-mac at r-project.org> 
> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 8:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Rmpi package
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> On Aug 18, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Rohmatul Fajriyah wrote:
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>> 
>> 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. 
> 
> Really? I don't know about it. Therefore, I should not continue to do this ...? 
> 
> Rmpi is not listed as available in CRAN at the moment, apparently because it took more than 30 minutes to unload:
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> http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-x86_64/Rmpi-00check.html
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> I checked it and it's still there, Sir. (unless I am mistaken ...)
> 
> 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.
> 
> I tried to install it to broaden my knowledge in doing parallel computing. 
> (Yes, I have used some R parallel packages).
> 
> My computer is Mac OS X 10.8.4 and R 3.0.1 (64 bit).
> I downloaded the Rmpi_0.6-4.tar already, but I did not install it yet, due to as I have explained in my previous email.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Ema
> 
> -- 
> David
>> 
>> Apologise for the really basic questions.
>> 
>> Thank you very much in advance.
>> With kind regards,
>> Ema
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> David Winsemius
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