From arthur.allignol at fdm.uni-freiburg.de  Thu Jul 17 10:41:16 2008
From: arthur.allignol at fdm.uni-freiburg.de (Arthur Allignol)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:41:16 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Problems with snowfall
In-Reply-To: <OFFB9C4A66.8E3BCB22-ON80257488.003D5DEA-80257488.003D961E@hsbcib.com>
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Message-ID: <487F05AC.4090809@fdm.uni-freiburg.de>

Hello,

Problem is fixed in version 1.52, which is on CRAN for some days now.
That missing object was saved in an rda file which somehow got lost on
the first release version. Sorry for this.

Best,
Arthur Allignol

giuseppe1.milicia at hsbcib.com wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> Is anyone using snowfall? It seems that the last version is broken. sfinit
> contains test code:
> 
>     data("config", package = "snowfall")
>     configM <- as.matrix(t(config))
>     config <- as.list(configM)
>     names(config) <- dimnames(configM)[[2]]
>     .sfOption$SERVER <<- as.character(config[["SERVER"]])
>     .sfOption$PORT <<- as.numeric(config[["PORT"]])
>     .sfOption$MAXNODES <<- as.numeric(config[["MAXNODES"]])
> 
> Which tries to set up the environment with the test data from "config"
> 
> On top of that is assumes the existence in the environment of a variable
> "sfOption", without that it doesn't get past the first few lines of code...
> 
> I wonder if the package is used by anyone around here?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> // Giuseppe
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[Rd] Problems with snowfall
Arthur Allignol