On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, chibco at gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
I am trying to execute the simple example in snowfall
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/snowfall/vignettes/snowfall.pdf
...
require(snow)
require(snowfall)
sfInit( parallel=TRUE, cpus=2 )
sfLapply( 1:10, exp )
sfStop()
I have installed the snow and snowfall packages in R on a machine with
windows xp, however, after running the "sfInit( parallel=TRUE, cpus=2 )"
line I get an error ...
Error in system("whoami", intern = TRUE, ignore.stderr = TRUE) :
whoami not found
Error in paste(sep = "_", "XXXXXXXXR", uname, format(Sys.time(),
"%H%M%S_%m%d%y")) :
object "uname" not found
I am the only (administrator) user of the computer. It has a dual core
processor, and is not networked.
I would be greatful if someone could tell me how to proceed.
Follow the posting guide (see the footer of this message) and talk to
the maintainer of 'snowfall'. Most likely it is not intended to be
used on Windows, but has not declared that. 'whoami' and 'uname' are
Unix programs, not Windows ones, but R's Sys.info() provides
equivalent information.
Kind regards
Chibisi
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