On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Martin Morgan <mtmor...@fhcrc.org> wrote:
> Interested developers -- I added the start of a BiocParallel package to > the Bioconductor subversion repository and build system. > > The package is mirrored on github to allow for social coding; I encourage > people to contribute via that mechanism. > > > https://github.com/**Bioconductor/BiocParallel<https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel> > > The purpose is to help focus our efforts at developing appropriate > parallel paradigms. Currently the package Imports: parallel and implements > pvec and mclapply in a way that allows for operation on any vector or list > supporting length(), [, and [[ (the latter for mclapply). pvec in > particular seems to be appropriate for GRanges-like objects, where we don't > necessarily want to extract many thousands of S4 instances of individual > ranges with [[. > Makes sense. Besides, [[ does not even work on GRanges. One limitation of pvec is that it does not support a chunk size; it just uses length(x) / ncores. It would be nice to be able to restrict that, which would then require multiple jobs per core. Unless I'm missing something. > > Hopefully the ideas in the package can be folded back in to parallel as > they mature. > > Martin > -- > Dr. Martin Morgan, PhD > Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center > 1100 Fairview Ave. N. > PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109 > > ______________________________**_________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/bioc-devel<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
