I think you need to ask whoever installed Rmpi on your machine or provided a binary package: CRAN does not distribute a Windows binary, and one reason is that Rmpi has to be compiled against a specific MPI installation.

Or ask the package maintainer, as the posting guide suggested. In any case, R-devel would have been more appropriate: this is about non-R programming. See also http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/yu/Rmpi/windows.htm


On 21/08/2013 13:18, Stephen Clark wrote:
Hello,

I am trying to run the optimise_ppso_robust parallel swarm optimisation 
function in R3.0.0 on a 6 core AMD Windows 8 64bit PC. To do this I need to 
load the Rmpi package. When I do this I get the following message in a dialogue 
box:

The program can't start because mpich2mpi.dll is missing from your computer. 
Try installing the program to fix this problem.

Additionally in the R console it says:

Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'Rmpi', details:
   call: inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...)
   error: unable to load shared object 'C:/Program 
Files/R/R-3.0.0/library/Rmpi/libs/x64/Rmpi.dll':
   LoadLibrary failure:  The specified module could not be found.

In addition: Warning message:
package 'Rmpi' was built under R version 3.0.1
Error: package or namespace load failed for 'Rmpi'

I have checked and there is a Rmpi.dll file in the specified directory.

So you have misread the message. It does not say 'Rmpi.dll could not be found': if you choose to use Windows you should be used to its arcane messages. It means 'some DLL etc needed could not be found' and on recent versions of Windows there is usually a message box about one of them.


To try and solve this problem I have tried installing mpich2 from here 
http://www.mpich.org/downloads/ (both the Windows Team "version" and the Jayesh Krishna 
"version"). I can then get the cpi.exe test program running on multi-cores in a command 
windows.

Has anyone got package Rmpi to install under Windows 8 without my error 
messages and how did they do this?

Thanks.

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