R: Serial versions of 'mclapply' and 'pvec'

mclapply {parallel}

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Serial versions of `mclapply` and `pvec`

Description

These are simple serial versions of mclapply and pvec for Windows where forking is not available.

Usage

mclapply(X, FUN, ..., mc.preschedule = TRUE, mc.set.seed = TRUE,
         mc.silent = FALSE, mc.cores = 1L,
         mc.cleanup = TRUE, mc.allow.recursive = TRUE)

pvec(v, FUN, ..., mc.set.seed = TRUE, mc.silent = FALSE,
     mc.cores = 1L, mc.cleanup = TRUE)

Arguments

X

a vector (atomic or list) or an expressions vector. Other objects (including classed objects) will be coerced by as.list.

v

vector to operate on

FUN

the function to be applied to each element of X or v

...

optional arguments to FUN

mc.preschedule, mc.set.seed, mc.silent, mc.cleanup, mc.allow.recursive

Ignored on Windows.

mc.cores

The number of cores to use, i.e. at most how many child processes will be run simultaneously. Must be exactly 1 on Windows (which uses the master process).

Details

mclapply calls lapply and pvec makes a single call FUN(v, ...). On Unix-alikes mc.cores > 1 is allowed and uses parallel operations.

Value

For mclapply, a list of the same length as X and named by X.

For pvec, a vector of the same length as v.