Re: [Rd] R cmd check and multicore foreach loop

2011-08-17 Thread Renaud Gaujoux
Uhm... maybe this is the issue. The issue seems to specially occur when I am building the vignette, which performs some parallel computations on a reduced example, therefore faster than in a normal usage of the package. The two processes (on my dual core) output some logging information using c

Re: [Rd] R cmd check and multicore foreach loop

2011-08-17 Thread Brian G. Peterson
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 04:50 -0700, Tim Triche, Jr. wrote: > I'll see if I can put together a self-contained example. Primarily, > the times that I use multicore (and attempted to use doSMP, mostly > because one of my users refuses to ditch Windows) are when I am > reading a ton of binary files, no

Re: [Rd] R cmd check and multicore foreach loop

2011-08-17 Thread Tim Triche, Jr.
I'll see if I can put together a self-contained example. Primarily, the times that I use multicore (and attempted to use doSMP, mostly because one of my users refuses to ditch Windows) are when I am reading a ton of binary files, none of which depend on the others. This is a blindingly obvious us

Re: [Rd] R cmd check and multicore foreach loop

2011-08-17 Thread Renaud Gaujoux
hopefully you'll be able to create a reproducible example, as my hanging issues seem to come and go without any obvious reason. On 17/08/2011 13:50, Tim Triche, Jr. wrote: > I'll see if I can put together a self-contained example. Primarily, > the times that I use multicore (and attempted to u

Re: [Rd] R cmd check and multicore foreach loop

2011-08-17 Thread Renaud Gaujoux
I did notice some strange behaviour once, but things were working without a problem for a while now. foreach loops and concepts are nice concepts, which I'd like to carry on using. Maybe somebody from the foreach-dopar packages could explain why they have such issues? Tim do you have concrete e