Re: [R] Foreach (doMC)

2011-10-21 Thread Jannis
Jay, sorry if my post was not precise enough. I simply wanted to point out that I personally have no problem at all with commercial R products as I have the free choice to use them or their open source alternatives. In addition Revolutions is supplying their packages for free to the R commun

Re: [R] Foreach (doMC)

2011-10-20 Thread Jannis
Dear list members, dear Jay, Well, I personally do not care about Revolutions Analytics selling their products as this is also included into the idea of many open source licences. Especially as Revolutions provide their packages to the community and its is everybodies personal choice to buy th

Re: [R] Foreach (doMC)

2011-10-20 Thread Jay Emerson
Jannis, I'm not complete sure I understand your first point, but maybe someone from REvolution will weigh in. Nobody is forcing anyone to purchase any products, and there are attractive alternatives such as the CRAN R and R Studio (to name two). This issue has arisen many times of the various li

Re: [R] Foreach (doMC)

2011-10-19 Thread Jay Emerson
> P.S. Is there any particular reason why there are so seldom answers to posts > regarding foreach and all these doMC/doSMP packages ? Do so few people use > these packages or does this have anything to do with the commercial origin of > these packages? Jannis, An interesting question. I'm a

Re: [R] Foreach (doMC)

2011-10-18 Thread Jannis
Rui, I suggest you read the following tutorial to give you an introduction to foreach: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doMC/vignettes/gettingstartedMC.pdf Regarding your question I could would suspect that you can not assign values to some variable inside foreach and use them "outside"