experinental revision of the 'snow' package

Hello Luke,

I did several test with our affyPara Testcode. Everything was working 
very well. I think you improved error-handling?
It would be great to have a kind of change log in the package. To know 
the latest changes.

Our system:
Linux, Suse, max. 120 nodes, LAM/MPI: 7.1.3

R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

locale:
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods 
[8] base    

other attached packages:
[1] hgu95acdf_2.2.0      Rmpi_0.5-6           affyPara_1.1.5     
[4] snow_0.3-3           affy_1.18.2          preprocessCore_1.2.0
[7] affyio_1.8.0         Biobase_2.0.1 


Best regards form Munich
Markus



Luke Tierney schrieb:

A new version of the 'snow' package for parallel computing in R is
available at

     http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/cluster/snow_0.3-3.tar.gz

This substantially revises the way in which worker processes are
started to allow snow to be used on Windows and Mac/Windows/Linux
combinations. I have successfully used the SOCK version on a
standalone Windows machine and combinations of Windows and Linux; the
MPI version also works for me with DeinoMPI and the Rmpi verision for
DeinoMPI.

I would welcome it if some current snow users could try this verison
in their settings to help iron out any major issues I missed before
release to CRAN.

Thanks,

luke

Dipl.-Tech. Math. Markus Schmidberger

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen
IBE - Institut f?r medizinische Informationsverarbeitung,
Biometrie und Epidemiologie
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