Not at present. The next release should include something along these lines.
luke On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Markus Schmidberger wrote: > Hello, > > is there any function in the package snow to check for a really running > cluster? > The function checkCluster only checks the variable cl. And the variable is > still available after stopping the cluster! > ( a simple solution would be deleting the cluster variable cl in the function > stopCluster) > >> library(snow) >> cl <- makeCluster(5) > 5 slaves are spawned successfully. 0 failed. >> clusterApply(cl, 1:2, get("+"), 3) > [[1]] > [1] 4 > > [[2]] > [1] 5 > >> stopCluster(c1) > [1] 1 >> clusterApply(cl, 1:2, get("+"), 3) > Fehler in mpi.probe(source, tag, comm, status) : > MPI_Error_string: invalid communicator > > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03) > 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=de_DE.UTF-8;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] affyPara_0.99.2 affy_1.16.0 preprocessCore_1.0.0 > [4] affyio_1.6.1 Biobase_1.16.1 Rmpi_0.5-5 [7] > snow_0.2-9 > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] rcompgen_0.1-15 > > > Best > Markus > > -- Luke Tierney Chair, Statistics and Actuarial Science Ralph E. Wareham Professor of Mathematical Sciences University of Iowa Phone: 319-335-3386 Department of Statistics and Fax: 319-335-3017 Actuarial Science 241 Schaeffer Hall email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iowa City, IA 52242 WWW: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.