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  Running examples in ‘papply-Ex.R’ failed
  The error most likely occurred in:
  
  > ### Name: papply
  > ### Title: papply
  > ### Aliases: papply
  > ### Keywords: utilities
  >
  > ### ** Examples
  >
  > # A couple trivial examples
  > library(papply)
  >
  > number_lists <- list(1:10,4:40,2:27)
  > results <- papply(number_lists,sum)
  1 slaves are spawned successfully. 0 failed.
  master (rank 0, comm 1) of size 2 is running on: gannet
  slave1 (rank 1, comm 1) of size 2 is running on: gannet
  [1] "Running serial version of papply\n"
  > results
  [[1]]
  [1] 55
  
  [[2]]
  [1] 814
  
  [[3]]
  [1] 377
  
  >
  > biased_sum <- function(number_list) {
  + return(sum(number_list+bias))
  + }
  > results <- papply(number_lists,biased_sum,list(bias=2))
  [1] "Running serial version of papply\n"
  > results
  [[1]]
  [1] 75
  
  [[2]]
  [1] 888
  
  [[3]]
  [1] 429
  
  >
  >
  > # A slightly larger example - training of a neural net over a parameter space.
  > # Produces information on best rss result for each set of parameters.
  > # Maintains static random seeds in order to provide reproducible results.
  > # (This isn't ideal. e.g. RSS not the best measure given variation in
  > # sizes of test sets. But, it should show closely how papply is really used)
  >
  > # Read in libaries and Boston Housing Data
  > library(papply)
  > library(MASS)
  Error in library(MASS) : there is no package called ‘MASS’
  Execution halted