[Rsiena-help] siena07 and network connections

[Ruth Ripley]

Nate,

I have done some experiments on Windows 7 Home version. Here I am asked 
whether to allow the program to get incoming connections. (And it seems 
to set it up to allow, regardless of what I answer, but that is another 
issue! On the office machines it hangs whatever I do.) But if I add an 
entry for RGui in the incoming firewall tables, which says block this 
process, all is well. There is no message and it runs.

On XP (not high security version, just a laptop with unprivileged user) 
I get a message but can ignore it completely. I can only think yours is 
a firewall issue, but not one specifically to do with the program: some 
other option has been turned off. I am not knowledgeable about Windows 
admin, but RGui or Rterm is trying to communicate with 'localhost' using 
port 10187. Maybe this port is not open. The actual number can be 
changed with a little effort (ask me how if you need to do it), in case 
your admin has turned them all off and would be willing to turn on one 
but not that one.

Having been away for a few weeks, I guess I now need to check everything 
works with R 2.14.1.

BTW, I gather from R 2.15 it will be possible to use openMP and 
multi-threading within R on Windows, but this would require major 
changes to RSiena so is unlikely to happen soon.

Regards,

Ruth

On 15/01/2012 17:38, Nate Doogan wrote:
> Hey Ruth.
> This machine is using XP. I do not get the option to "unblock" or "keep
> blocking." It appears to simply be a notice. In the past I have been
> given the option, and I vaguely recall that it didn't matter which I
> chose as you've said. But now it's the only lead I have for why the
> estimation never begins. It could be something else altogether. I'll
> continue checking and rechecking my scripts and the status of the
> machines around here with respect to administration.
> Also, I have tried this with RSiena release 167 and the most recent 191.
> Thanks as always.
> Nate
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Ruth Ripley <ruth at stats.ox.ac.uk
> <mailto:ruth at stats.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Nate,
>
>     I have encountered this myself and never found a fix. You do not
>     need to allow access to the R process, so 'keep blocking' is OK, but
>     I seem to remember that unless you have privileges you cannot even
>     answer the question. But I will have another attempt to find a fix
>     from the admin side.
>
>     I seem to remember it was OK on windows xp but not windows 7. Which
>     windows do you have?
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Ruth
>
>
>
>     On 15/01/2012 16:19, Nate Doogan wrote:
>
>         Hey group.
>         I am trying to diagnose and fix an issue with using multiple
>         processors
>         with a siena07 call on a Windows machine.
>         When I attempt to run siena07 with 4 processes, I get a pop-up
>         that is
>         clearly from Windows that says R is "blocked." It's not made
>         entirely
>         clear, but I assume this means it's a firewall issue. The estimation
>         never begins. Indeed, a look in the firewall settings shows NO
>         exception
>         for R (there's a button for it, but it is not "checked" and I
>         can not
>         check it). I do not have access to change these settings. I'm
>         attempting
>         to work with the administrator with little success.
>         When I try to run the same call for a single process, the blockage
>         dialog box does not appear, and the estimation proceeeds (much more
>         slowly than usual, of course).
>         Does it even sound correct that the firewall could be the issue? Is
>         there a workaround that a non-administrator might be able to invoke
>         (e.g. change the way siena07 asks for multiple processes)? Or do
>         I need
>         to press my admin harder to get this done?
>         Thank you.
>         Nathan Doogan
>
>
>
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Ruth M. Ripley,                         Email:ruth at stats.ox.ac.uk
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