[Rd] Why my messages are filtered from the list?

2015-05-28 Thread Ivan Popivanov
Hello, Over the last two months I have sent two messages (same topic) to the list. None of them showed on the list. For the first, I got a message that it is in some queue and waiting for an administrator to look at it. Is the queue THAT long?! [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __

Re: [Rd] Why my messages are filtered from the list?

2015-05-28 Thread Ivan Popivanov
12:43 AM David Winsemius wrote: > > On May 28, 2015, at 9:11 PM, Ivan Popivanov wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Over the last two months I have sent two messages (same topic) to the > list. > > None of them showed on the list. For the first, I got a message that i

[Rd] Adding lock capabilities to parallel?

2015-04-20 Thread Ivan Popivanov
Hello, Sometime ago I had to solve the problem of writing to common files from parallel R processes. For the synchronization, I created a small package ( https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/flock/) to perform a lock/unlock between different processes. My feeling is that this is something that b

[Rd] Is the parallel package the right place for locking functionality?

2015-05-20 Thread Ivan Popivanov
Hello, Sometime ago I had to solve the problem of writing to common files from parallel R processes. For the synchronization, I created a small package ( https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/flock/) to perform a lock/unlock between different processes. My feeling is that this is something that b

[Rd] An idea: Extend mclapply's mc.set.seed with an initial seed value?

2012-11-02 Thread Ivan Popivanov
Hello, Have been thinking that sometimes users may want each process to initialize its random seed with a specific value rather then the current seed. This could be keyed off depending whether mc.set.seed is logical, preserving the current behaviour, or numerical, using the value in a call to set.