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Today's Topics:
1. Re: snowfall? (Liaw, Andy)
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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 08:49:50 -0500
From: "Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw at merck.com>
To: Jonathan Greenberg <jgrn at illinois.edu>, Dirk Eddelbuettel
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Cc: "r-sig-hpc at r-project.org" <r-sig-hpc at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R-sig-hpc] snowfall?
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Besides all that, there is at least one package that is still on CRAN that depends on snowfall, but can't be installed because snowfall isn't available. I suppose if one already has a previous installation of snowfall, then it's not a problem...
(I personally had not used snowfall, until I tried to install this package that depends on it.)
Cheers,
Andy
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From: r-sig-hpc-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-hpc-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Greenberg
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 4:18 PM
To: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Cc: r-sig-hpc at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-hpc] snowfall?
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 at 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
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