Many thanks, that is very helpful.
Tolga
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Re: [R] cluster/snow question
ls() looks in its calling environment, which in this case would be the
internals of the snow mechnism. If you want ls of the global
environment use one of
clusterEvalQ(cl, ls())
clusterCall(cl, ls, .GlobalEnv)
luke
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Many thanks. Yes, weird, somehow ls does not show the variables in the
> environment, even though they are clearly there. It would be nice to
> understand why that is the case, just to be clear about what is going
on.
>
> Thanks Markus,
> Tolga
>
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> Markus Schmidberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 10/09/2008 10:45
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> Hi Tolga,
>
> I am not sure why ls() is showing only "args" and "fun".
>
> But x is at the nodes. Try this:
>
> clusterEvalQ(cl,x<-x+3)
> [[1]]
> [1] 4
>
> [[2]]
> [1] 4
>
> clusterCall(cl,function()x+5)
> [[1]]
> [1] 9
>
> [[2]]
> [1] 9
>
> Best
> Markus
>
>
>
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>> Dear R Users,
>>
>> Apologies for a somewhat basic cluster question. I am trying to come to
>> grips with how variables are instantiated within the environment of
each
>
>> node in a cluster. When I run the following code, I expect to see the
>> variable "x" in the environment of each node, but fail to do so. What
am
> I
>> doing wrong ?
>>
>> library(snow)
>> noclusters<-2
>> cl <- makeCluster(noclusters, type = "SOCK")
>> clusterCall(cl,ls)
>> x<-1
>> clusterExport(cl,"x")
>> clusterCall(cl,ls) #expect to see x in the environment, but get back
the
>
>> same result as in the call above
>> stopCluster(cl)
>>
>>
>>> library(snow)
>>> noclusters<-2
>>> cl <- makeCluster(noclusters, type = "SOCK")
>>> clusterCall(cl,ls)
>>>
>> [[1]]
>> [1] "args" "fun"
>>
>> [[2]]
>> [1] "args" "fun"
>>
>>
>>> x<-1
>>> clusterExport(cl,"x")
>>> clusterCall(cl,ls) #expect to see x in the environment
>>>
>> [[1]]
>> [1] "args" "fun"
>>
>> [[2]]
>> [1] "args" "fun"
>>
>>
>>> stopCluster(cl)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Tolga
>>
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