can't open sockets for parallel cluster

Question

I am trying to use the parallel package, and found that makeCluster fails to complete. I\'ve traced the hang to the following line in newPSOC

Answer 1

Test 1: Does the obvious command work?

library(parallel)    
cluster <- makePSOCKcluster("localhost")    
parSapply(cluster, 1:5, sqrt)
stopCluster(cluster)

Test 2: Is your port blocked?

According to ?makeCluster, the default port is 10187. Check with your network admin to see if that port is open.

Test 3: Do the variables passed in to socketConnection look right?

If I do debugonce(parallel:::newPSOCKnode) and then stepping to through to just before the call to socketConnection, the workspace look this this:

ls.str()
arg :  chr "parallel:::.slaveRSOCK()"
## cmd :  chr "\"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-215~1.2/bin/x64/Rscript\" -e \"parallel:::.slaveRSOCK()\" MASTER=localhost PORT=10187 OUT=/dev/null TIMEOUT=2"| __truncated__
## env :  chr "MASTER=localhost PORT=10187 OUT=/dev/null TIMEOUT=2592000 METHODS=TRUE XDR=TRUE"
## machine :  chr "localhost"
## manual :  logi FALSE
## master :  chr "localhost"
## methods :  logi TRUE
## options :  
## outfile :  chr "/dev/null"
## port :  num 10187
## rank :  int 1
## renice :  int NA
## rscript :  chr "\"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-215~1.2/bin/x64/Rscript\""
## timeout :  num 2592000
## useXDR :  logi TRUE

Are you getting the same things passed in?