Re: [Rd] makeCluster hangs

Also using R-devel might help - the forking support in parallel has been made more robust against race conditions, but the changes are probably too substantial to port to 3.4.x. If you find how to cause a race condition using parallel/forking in R-devel, a report would be greatly appreciated.

[Rd] [parallel] fixes load balancing of parLapplyLB

Dear R-Devel List, **TL;DR:** The function **parLapplyLB** of the parallel package has [reportedly][1] (see also attached RRD output) not been doing its job, i.e. not actually balancing the load. My colleague Dirk Sarpe and I found the cause of the problem and we also have a patch to fix it (att

[Rd] Fix minor typo in error message from grDevices

Hi, I fixed a minor typo in an error message from grDevices. Please see attached for a patch to revision 74246. Thanks, John Index: src/library/grDevices/src/colors.c === --- src/library/grDevices/src/colors.c (revision 74246) +++

[Rd] Setting the path to Rtools for package compilation on Windows

Hi all, I'm trying to set up the Windows Rtools toolset for building packages with compiled code. I installed for Windows R-3.4.3 from CRAN and installed Rtools-3.4 in a custom location M:\R\R-3.4.3 and M:\R\Rtools-3.4 Following the instructions, in shell, I set Path=M:\R\Rtools-3.4\bin;M:\R\Rtoo

Re: [Rd] Setting the path to Rtools for package compilation on Windows

I can confirm the behaviour that you report.  Usually I put Rtools in c:\programs\Rtools and modify the path accordingly. Recently (don't recall for how long) I have encountered the same problems as you have and I have resorted to moving Rtools to c:\Rtools I have no idea as how to proceed; perha