Re: [R] R hangs when connected via VPN [incl. minimal example]

2011-03-14 Thread Marius Hofert
Dear Duncan, Rich Calaway helped me narrowing down the error. The problem is that I can't execute the line cl<- makeCluster(mpi.universe.size(), type ="MPI") when I am connected via VPN. Rich finally suggested to post this on R-SIG-HPC, which I did a couple of minutes ago. Cheers, Marius On

Re: [R] R hangs when connected via VPN [incl. minimal example]

2011-03-13 Thread Marius Hofert
Dear Duncan, thanks for your suggestion. I contacted "REvolution Computing" on this behalf. Rmpi and rlecuyer are loaded automatically, so they are not explicitly needed in the minimal example. I'll post the answer (if I receive one). It's quite an annoying problem if you frequently work on a

Re: [R] R hangs when connected via VPN [incl. minimal example]

2011-03-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-03-13 4:34 AM, Marius Hofert wrote: Dear expeRts, This is a similar post as on R-SIG-MAC [I didn't receive an answer there; not sure if it was the right place to post either]. I'm running R version 2.12.1 (Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)) on a MacBook Pro under Mac OS

[R] R hangs when connected via VPN [incl. minimal example]

2011-03-13 Thread Marius Hofert
Dear expeRts, This is a similar post as on R-SIG-MAC [I didn't receive an answer there; not sure if it was the right place to post either]. I'm running R version 2.12.1 (Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)) on a MacBook Pro under Mac OS X 10.6.6. The following minimal example ru