On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Henrik Bengtsson
> wrote:
>> When using multicore-forking of the parallel package, is it possible
>> for a child process to know that it is a fork?
>
> R internally uses R_isForkedChild to prevent certain opera
Hello,
In help(clusterApply) of the 'parallel' package, it says:
"clusterApply calls fun on the first node with arguments seq[[1]] and ..., on
the second node with seq[[2]] and ..., and so on, recycling nodes as needed."
But the argument that is iterated over in clusterApply() is called 'x' not
Hi all,
The documentation for head() and tail() describes the behavior of
these generic functions when n is strictly positive (n > 0) and
strictly negative (n < 0). How these functions work when given a zero
value is not defined.
Both GNU command-line utilities head and tail behave differently wi
FWIW I wrote a tool that tests which dependencies of a package are
build-time dependencies:
https://github.com/r-hub/builddeps
It is not very smart, just "brute-force", really. It tries to install the
package several times, leaving out one dependency at a time, and if the
installation fails, then
