<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dear sirs, good afternoon</span><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I just updated RSiena to its latest version on CRAN. Since then </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px;text-align:left">the useCluster option of siena07() method stopped working. </span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px;text-align:left"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px;text-align:left">Now, every time I try to use multi-processors i get the following error:</span></div>
<div><br></div><div><b><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Error in checkForRemoteErrors(lapply(cl, recvResult)) : </span><br style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">8 nodes produced errors; first error: VECTOR_ELT() can only be applied to a 'list', not a 'externalptr</span></b></div>
<div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#444444" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:16px"><br></span></font></div></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#444444" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:16px">I don't believe this is a model mispecification because i tried it with your own example </span></font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px">RscriptSienaBehaviour.R provided on siena website wihtout any change other than the final call to siena07: </span></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>ans <- siena07( myCoEvModel, data = myCoEvolutionData, effects = myCoEvolutionEff, batch=T, verbose=T, nbrNodes=8, useCluster=T)</b></span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#444444" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:16px">And the problem was the same. </span></font></div>
<div><br style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thanks for your help,<br>
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