Re: [Rd] Rmpi on CentOS (64bit)

2010-03-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
There are many different versions of OpenMPI about.  It looks like you 
have one that is set up for specialized hardware.  Either this is the 
wrong version or a configuration error, and you will need to talk to 
your 'local System Administrator'.


Incidentally, you should not have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but I 
frequently have had to add configuration files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d, 
including for openmpi on Fedora 12. On Fedora 10 (but not 12) MPI was 
under the /etc/alternatives mechanism, and had other problems.  I 
currently have


gannet% cat /etc/ld.so.conf.d/openmpi-x86_64.conf
/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib

on F12.

On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Patrick Connolly wrote:


I got Rmpi to compile with little difficulty, but had a tricky time
setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to use the OpenMPI libs.  I now get a
different error when I try to load Rmpi



require(Rmpi)

Loading required package: Rmpi
librdmacm: couldn't read ABI version.
librdmacm: assuming: 4
libibverbs: Fatal: couldn't read uverbs ABI version.
CMA: unable to open /dev/infiniband/rdma_cm
--
WARNING: Failed to open "OpenIB-cma" [DAT_INTERNAL_ERROR:].
This may be a real error or it may be an invalid entry in the uDAPL
Registry which is contained in the dat.conf file. Contact your local
System Administrator to confirm the availability of the interfaces in
the dat.conf file.
--

I don't have this problem with Fedora 11 and I'd have thought there
would be little difference with CentOS (apart from the latter being 64
bit).

Is there something else that needs to be specified?


TIA

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Re: [Rd] Installation problem with 2.10 and Solaris 10 (PR#14227)

2010-03-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley

On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, jno...@vcu.edu wrote:


Full_Name: John Noble
Version: 2.10


There is no such version of R (see the posting guide for the need for 
accurate reporting of version numbers).  In 2.10.1, the unpacking is 
usually done by either by


tar xf

or

gzip -dc | tar xf

so the behaviour of gzip -d without -c is not relevant.

As R 2.10.0 and 2.10.1 have been built on many Solaris 10 systems, by 
far the most likely issue is a configuration problem on yours.


One possible workaround (not needed on our Solaris boxes) is to set 
the environment variable TAR to a GNU version of tar that supports 
unpacking compressed archives directly: R will then call that tar.



OS: Solaris 10 SPARC
Submission from: (NULL) (128.172.190.27)



 The make of Recommended fails.  All sections of Make work up to 
this point and the compiled version of R appears to be correct. 
Only when adding the recommended modules does the problem appear.


Do you mean the 'recommended packages': there are 'modules' and that 
is not what is being installed at this stage?


The best I can figure the problem appears to be related to the fact 
that gzip will not decompress linked files without the "-f" option.


Not the whole story ... but what version of gzip is this?


Sample output follows:

# make
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jnoble/R-2.10.1/src/library/Recommended'
begin installing recommended package boot
ERROR: cannot extract package from 'boot.tgz'
make[1]: *** [boot.ts] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jnoble/R-2.10.1/src/library/Recommended'
make: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2

 The boot.ts.out file contains:

# more boot.ts.out
 ERROR: cannot extract package from 'boot.tgz'

 If I try to run the command that the Makefile appears to be running
by hand I get the following:

# ../../../bin/R CMD INSTALL -l "../../../library" boot.tgz
 ERROR: cannot extract package from 'boot.tgz'

Oddly, the following happens with the latest gzip:

gzip -d boot.tgz
gzip: boot.tgz: Number of symbolic links encountered during path name traversal
exceeds MAXSYMLINKS


That is as expected, but where did you get the idea that gzip -d is 
used in that fashion?  The most likely command used,


gzip -dc boot.tgz | tar xf -

works for e.g. gzip 1.3.5 (which is what our Solaris 10 system has in 
/usr/bin) and 1.3.12.



 This can be corrected with the "-f" option but I can't pass that into "R".


Actually, you can: the gzip command used is set by R_GZIPCMD.  But 
you do not want to here.




 Thanks, john noble
 VCU
 jno...@vcu.edu

 Solaris 10, SPARC

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[Rd] Displaying political boundaries in R

2010-03-03 Thread Arlindo Meque
 
Dearall,  
 
 
I am new in the R environment. How can I enable political boundaries in R?
I want plot a variable (e.g., temperature) only for Mozambique.
 
 
Help is needed 



  
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Re: [Rd] libgfortran misplaced in Mac OS X R install (PR#14226)

2010-03-03 Thread Simon Urbanek
This is not an R bug so please don't abuse R-bugs. It is likely a bug  
in the way OpenMx binaries are distributed by someone (you didn't even  
say where you got them from) - OpenMx is not even on CRAN so take that  
to whoever gave you the binaries. On CRAN we use the correct paths.


Cheers,
Simon


On Mar 2, 2010, at 11:45 , tbr...@virginia.edu wrote:


Full_Name: Timothy Brick
Version: 2.10
OS: Mac OS X (seen on both 10.6 and 10.5)
Submission from: (NULL) (63.255.24.5)


When using install.packages in R on Mac OS X, packages that require  
gfortran

throws an error (Example below from installation of OpenMx package):

Loading required package: OpenMx
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
unable to load shared library
'/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/OpenMx/libs/i386/ 
OpenMx.so':
dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/OpenMx/libs/ 
i386/OpenMx.so,

6): Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libgfortran.2.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/ 
OpenMx/libs/i386/OpenMx.so

Reason: image not found

libgfortran.2.dylib does exist, but in
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.10/Resouces/lib/ 
libgfortran.2.dylib

(or /2.9/, depending on version installed).

A workaround at present involves creating a symbolic link from the  
above file to
/usr/local/lib/libgfortran.2.dylib, however this requires sudo  
access and is

confusing for novice users.

There is more discussion of this bug as it relates to OpenMx at:
http://openmx.psyc.virginia.edu/thread/316

Posts on other forums indicate a similar issue with other packages  
including

vegan and lme4:
http://r-forge.r-project.org/forum/forum.php? 
thread_id=728&forum_id=194

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2009-May/006210.html



Those are very old posts and those were temporary issues in the CRAN  
build system that have been promptly resolved.


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[Rd] What is pairlist in R-ints.pdf?

2010-03-03 Thread blue sky
R-ints.pdf mentions pairlist with the reference to mit-scheme.
However, it is not clear to me what 'pairlist' exactly refers to, as I
don't find the definition for it. Does a 'pairlist' in R equivalent to
a pair or a list (which is essentially a pair whose cdr is a list) in
mit-scheme?

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Re: [Rd] R logo as SVG ?

2010-03-03 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
My Wednesday procrastination:

There's quite some number of decimals in the SVG and some whitespace,
so some dummy trimming gives:

x <- readLines("http://developer.r-project.org/Logo/Rlogo-1.svg";);
nx <- sum(nchar(x))+length(x);

for (kk in 2:0) {
  # Keep only K decimals
  pattern <- sprintf("([0-9]+)\\.([0-9]{%d})([0-9]*)", kk);
  y <- gsub(pattern, "\\1.\\2", x);
  # Drop trailing zeros
  y <- gsub("([0-9]+)\\.([1-9]+)(0+)([^0])", "\\1.\\2\\4", y);
  # Drop trailing periods
  y <- gsub("([0-9]+)\\.([, \"])", "\\1\\2", y);
  # Trim white space
  y <- gsub("^[ ]+", "", y);
  y <- gsub("[ ]+\\/>", "/>", y);

  # Keep first line as is
  y[1] <- x[1];
  # Write to file
  pathname <- sprintf("Rlogo-1,trimmed,%d.svg", kk);
  bfr <- paste(y, collapse="\n");
  bfr <- charToRaw(bfr);
  ny <- length(bfr);
  writeBin(bfr, con=pathname);
  cat(sprintf("%d bytes (%.1f%%)\n", ny, 100*ny/nx));
} # for (kk ...)

gives

36694 bytes (74.3%)
32766 bytes (66.3%)
23981 bytes (48.5%)

Not easy to see any differences between these and the original one.

/Henrik

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Jens Elkner  wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:16:16PM +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>> >Jens Elkner wrote:
> ...
>> >>BTW: screenshots I made from my desktop are available via
>> >>http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/r/
> ...
>> >Looks quite nice. I later realized that it would be a much better idea
>> >to start by tracing the highest resolution bitmap from
>> >
>> >http://developer.r-project.org/Logo
>> >
>> >I now have a version that is only 48 K. It still needs a little touching
>> >up to get a transparent background without destroying the highlighted
>> >regions. I'm attaching it here, but it might not make it to r-devel.
>
> Good work!!!
>
> Still looks ok for me (so less is more ;-)). Added screenshots to
> the URL above (new 49K based ones have a '2' at the end). For your
> convinience/easier comparision I tied them together:
> http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/r/menu.html
> http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/r/nautilus.html
>
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Re: [Rd] What is pairlist in R-ints.pdf?

2010-03-03 Thread Simon Urbanek


On Mar 3, 2010, at 11:29 , blue sky wrote:


R-ints.pdf mentions pairlist with the reference to mit-scheme.
However, it is not clear to me what 'pairlist' exactly refers to, as  
I don't find the definition for it. Does a 'pairlist' in R  
equivalent to a pair or a list (which is essentially a pair whose  
cdr is a list) in mit-scheme?




pairlist is short for "dotted pair list" (see ?pairlist) which is a  
syntax for specifying linked lists as ( CAR . CDR ). Since the term  
"list" has a different meaning in R, using just "list" would be  
ambiguous (in the current R lists are implemented as generic vectors,  
not as linked lists).


Cheers,
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Re: [Rd] Rmpi on CentOS (64bit)

2010-03-03 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Wed, 03-Mar-2010 at 08:42AM +, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> There are many different versions of OpenMPI about.  It looks like
> you have one that is set up for specialized hardware.  Either this
> is the wrong version or a configuration error, and you will need to
> talk to your 'local System Administrator'.

He knows less about it (MPI, at least) than I do.  Perhaps this is
'specialized hardware' in that it's a dual quad-core processor machine
-- but I'd have thought that's not particularly special nowadays.

I notice that my Fedora installation has no dat.conf file.  Perhaps
it pertains to something special on the CentOS machine.  I can't
check the CentOS machine right now, but at one time, I did find the
rpm that is associated with the dat.conf file.  Fedora seems not to
need that one.

>
> Incidentally, you should not have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but I  

It might not be elegant, but at least it got over that problem.  Is
there any possibility that doing it so inelegantly has a bearing on
the issues I have now?

> frequently have had to add configuration files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d,  
> including for openmpi on Fedora 12. On Fedora 10 (but not 12) MPI was  

Fedora 11 would appear to be like F12.  I'll check later if CentOS is
more like the way F10 was.

> under the /etc/alternatives mechanism, and had other problems.  I  
> currently have
>
> gannet% cat /etc/ld.so.conf.d/openmpi-x86_64.conf
> /usr/lib64/openmpi/lib

Is that to say I could make a similar file to avoid setting
LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

Thanks for the help.



>
> on F12.
>
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Patrick Connolly wrote:
>
>> I got Rmpi to compile with little difficulty, but had a tricky time
>> setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to use the OpenMPI libs.  I now get a
>> different error when I try to load Rmpi
>>
>>
>>> require(Rmpi)
>> Loading required package: Rmpi
>> librdmacm: couldn't read ABI version.
>> librdmacm: assuming: 4
>> libibverbs: Fatal: couldn't read uverbs ABI version.
>> CMA: unable to open /dev/infiniband/rdma_cm
>> --
>> WARNING: Failed to open "OpenIB-cma" [DAT_INTERNAL_ERROR:].
>> This may be a real error or it may be an invalid entry in the uDAPL
>> Registry which is contained in the dat.conf file. Contact your local
>> System Administrator to confirm the availability of the interfaces in
>> the dat.conf file.
>> --
>>
>> I don't have this problem with Fedora 11 and I'd have thought there
>> would be little difference with CentOS (apart from the latter being 64
>> bit).
>>
>> Is there something else that needs to be specified?
>>
>>
>> TIA
>>
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Re: [Rd] Rmpi on CentOS (64bit)

2010-03-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley

On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Patrick Connolly wrote:


On Wed, 03-Mar-2010 at 08:42AM +, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:


There are many different versions of OpenMPI about.  It looks like
you have one that is set up for specialized hardware.  Either this
is the wrong version or a configuration error, and you will need to
talk to your 'local System Administrator'.


He knows less about it (MPI, at least) than I do.  Perhaps this is
'specialized hardware' in that it's a dual quad-core processor machine
-- but I'd have thought that's not particularly special nowadays.


No, it is high-speed interconnects, used in high-performance clusters.


I notice that my Fedora installation has no dat.conf file.  Perhaps
it pertains to something special on the CentOS machine.  I can't
check the CentOS machine right now, but at one time, I did find the
rpm that is associated with the dat.conf file.  Fedora seems not to
need that one.


It does if you have that sort of hardware (and we do on one of the 
clusters we use).



Incidentally, you should not have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but I


It might not be elegant, but at least it got over that problem.  Is
there any possibility that doing it so inelegantly has a bearing on
the issues I have now?


Unlikely, unless you got the wrong libmpi.


frequently have had to add configuration files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d,
including for openmpi on Fedora 12. On Fedora 10 (but not 12) MPI was


Fedora 11 would appear to be like F12.  I'll check later if CentOS is
more like the way F10 was.


under the /etc/alternatives mechanism, and had other problems.  I
currently have

gannet% cat /etc/ld.so.conf.d/openmpi-x86_64.conf
/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib


Is that to say I could make a similar file to avoid setting
LD_LIBRARY_PATH?


Indeed, that is the recommended mechanism.


Thanks for the help.





on F12.

On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Patrick Connolly wrote:


I got Rmpi to compile with little difficulty, but had a tricky time
setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to use the OpenMPI libs.  I now get a
different error when I try to load Rmpi



require(Rmpi)

Loading required package: Rmpi
librdmacm: couldn't read ABI version.
librdmacm: assuming: 4
libibverbs: Fatal: couldn't read uverbs ABI version.
CMA: unable to open /dev/infiniband/rdma_cm
--
WARNING: Failed to open "OpenIB-cma" [DAT_INTERNAL_ERROR:].
This may be a real error or it may be an invalid entry in the uDAPL
Registry which is contained in the dat.conf file. Contact your local
System Administrator to confirm the availability of the interfaces in
the dat.conf file.
--

I don't have this problem with Fedora 11 and I'd have thought there
would be little difference with CentOS (apart from the latter being 64
bit).

Is there something else that needs to be specified?


TIA

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[Rd] Mentor for GSOC '10: Symbolic Regression in R

2010-03-03 Thread Chidambaram Annamalai
Hi all,

I am looking to extend the regression and data analysis capabilities of R
through Symbolic Regression that can potentially find implicit equation
relationships in the input data. You can find my project proposal at:
http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=developers:projects:gsoc2010:syrfr

I am looking for a mentor to guide me through the summer on the project
under the Google Summer Of Code program (GSOC 2010) with relevant experience
in Symbolic Regression or Genetic Programming in general.


Chillu

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Re: [Rd] Rmpi on CentOS (64bit)

2010-03-03 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Mar 3, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Patrick Connolly wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 03-Mar-2010 at 08:42AM +, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> 
>>> There are many different versions of OpenMPI about.  It looks like
>>> you have one that is set up for specialized hardware.  Either this
>>> is the wrong version or a configuration error, and you will need to
>>> talk to your 'local System Administrator'.
>> 
>> He knows less about it (MPI, at least) than I do.  Perhaps this is
>> 'specialized hardware' in that it's a dual quad-core processor machine
>> -- but I'd have thought that's not particularly special nowadays.
> 
> No, it is high-speed interconnects, used in high-performance clusters.
> 
>> I notice that my Fedora installation has no dat.conf file.  Perhaps
>> it pertains to something special on the CentOS machine.  I can't
>> check the CentOS machine right now, but at one time, I did find the
>> rpm that is associated with the dat.conf file.  Fedora seems not to
>> need that one.
> 
> It does if you have that sort of hardware (and we do on one of the clusters 
> we use).
> 
>>> Incidentally, you should not have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but I
>> 
>> It might not be elegant, but at least it got over that problem.  Is
>> there any possibility that doing it so inelegantly has a bearing on
>> the issues I have now?
> 
> Unlikely, unless you got the wrong libmpi.
> 
>>> frequently have had to add configuration files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d,
>>> including for openmpi on Fedora 12. On Fedora 10 (but not 12) MPI was
>> 
>> Fedora 11 would appear to be like F12.  I'll check later if CentOS is
>> more like the way F10 was.



Patrick, just as an FYI, I did not see which variant of CentOS you are using, 
but:

CentOS 4, which is based upon RHEL 4, is in turn based upon Fedora Core 3 
(2004).

CentOS 5, which is based upon RHEL 5, is in turn based upon Fedora Core 6 
(2006).

So to reinforce, there is a substantial and intentional lag between RHEL/CentOS 
and Fedora. Recall that RHEL and CentOS are targeted for stable server use, 
whereas Fedora is a bleeding edge distro.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

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Re: [Rd] Rmpi on CentOS (64bit)

2010-03-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel

On 3 March 2010 at 19:24, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
| On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Patrick Connolly wrote:
| 
| > On Wed, 03-Mar-2010 at 08:42AM +, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
| >
| >> There are many different versions of OpenMPI about.  It looks like
| >> you have one that is set up for specialized hardware.  Either this
| >> is the wrong version or a configuration error, and you will need to
| >> talk to your 'local System Administrator'.
| >
| > He knows less about it (MPI, at least) than I do.  Perhaps this is
| > 'specialized hardware' in that it's a dual quad-core processor machine
| > -- but I'd have thought that's not particularly special nowadays.
| 
| No, it is high-speed interconnects, used in high-performance clusters.

A similar issue once arose on Debian as we built Open MPI with the IB libs
even though most people don't have suitable Inifiniband hardware. In our case
that lead to a noisy warning; upstream later suppressed the warning given
certain conditions.  

You could try to suppress the probe for IB which we did (in the older 1.2.*
series of OpenMPI) via

   # Disable the use of InfiniBand
   #   btl = ^openib
   btl = ^openib

in  /etc/openmpi/openmpi-mca-params.conf

Hth, Dirk

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Re: [Rd] Displaying political boundaries in R

2010-03-03 Thread Ben Bolker
Arlindo Meque  yahoo.com.br> writes:

> 
>  
> Dearall,  
>  
>  
> I am new in the R environment. How can I enable political boundaries in R?
> I want plot a variable (e.g., temperature) only for Mozambique.


  Dear Arlindo,

 you need to
(1) ask this question at r-h...@r-project.org instead of r-devel:
this mailing list is for technical/development questions, not for
general help.

(2) read the posting guide 
and be much more specific about stating your question.

(3) it will improve your chances of getting a helpful answer
if you indicate that you have 'done your homework' by searching
in various places on the web, or in books, for the answer to
your question, before posting to the list.

  cheers
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Re: [Rd] Rmpi on CentOS (64bit)

2010-03-03 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Wed, 03-Mar-2010 at 01:46PM -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote:


|> Patrick, just as an FYI, I did not see which variant of CentOS you
|> are using, but:

Apologies.  I didn't mention it's 5.4

|> CentOS 4, which is based upon RHEL 4, is in turn based upon Fedora
|> Core 3 (2004).

|> CentOS 5, which is based upon RHEL 5, is in turn based upon Fedora
|> Core 6 (2006).

|> So to reinforce, there is a substantial and intentional lag between
|> RHEL/CentOS and Fedora. Recall that RHEL and CentOS are targeted
|> for stable server use, whereas Fedora is a bleeding edge distro.

Yes.  For that reason, I wished to get Rmpi working on CentOS.  I use
Fedora 11 at home and I'm a bit put off by the 300-500 Mb of updates
most weeks.  It's nice using the new stuff, but those updates
periodically screw up what had been working well.  I wouldn't want
that on a production machine.  Looks as though I'll have to do so
anyway.  My Linux skills aren't up to sorting out this CentOS lot, and
I should at least get it started: it's likely there's not much
difference between F11 and F12 for this task.

This could well be a case where Debian would be the easiest way to go,
but I couldn't convince the IT people to go down such a new track.
Ours is very much an rpm site.  In any case, my only Debian-type
experience is with Mepis (where I got Rmpi working in 20 minutes, but
I don't think that makes me a Debian pro).

Thanks for the hints.

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Re: [Rd] Mentor for GSOC '10: Symbolic Regression in R

2010-03-03 Thread Romain Francois

Hello,

I can't offer to mentor because I don't know anything about symbolic 
regression.


However, since you have R/C++ as the skills requirements, I would 
strongly recommend that you use Rcpp as an enabling technology, so that 
you can be productive on C++/symbolic regressions as opposed to manage R 
API quirks.


Also, you can count on some implicit support through Rcpp mailing list.
https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel

Good luck finding a mentor, this sounds like a cool project.

Romain

On 03/03/2010 08:17 PM, Chidambaram Annamalai wrote:


Hi all,

I am looking to extend the regression and data analysis capabilities of R
through Symbolic Regression that can potentially find implicit equation
relationships in the input data. You can find my project proposal at:
http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=developers:projects:gsoc2010:syrfr

I am looking for a mentor to guide me through the summer on the project
under the Google Summer Of Code program (GSOC 2010) with relevant experience
in Symbolic Regression or Genetic Programming in general.


Chillu



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