On 12/13/2016 09:33 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On 13/12/2016 17:05, Paul Johnson wrote:
We got some errors and eventually figured out that
parallel::clusterExport second argument is "varlist" while in
snow::clusterExport it is "list".
The user had loaded parallel first, but did something else which
inadvertently loaded snow, then clusterExport failed because we had
"varlist" and not "list".
Are these different on purpose?
Yes.
('list' is an unhelpful name for an argument that is not a list.)
Yes 'list' is a misleading name for a character vector. OTOH I guess
snow::clusterExport() was just following the lead of base::save() and
base::remove() on this.
I don't see 'varlist' as being much less confusing though: it still
suggests that the thing is a list and parallel::clusterExport() is
now inconsistent with snow::clusterExport(). So it doesn't really
address the 1st problem and introduces a new one. Sounds like using
a plural form instead of the "list" prefix would be less confusing
e.g. 'vars', 'varnames', 'objnames' or something like that.
H.
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