On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:33 AM, Manuela Benary
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we are currently developing a package, which has parallel (mclapply)
> support for some of the function. Because forking is not supported in
> Windows and when using RStudio, the parallel functions fail.
On which platform does RStudio not support mclapply? It should work in
all OSes except for Windows.
> The easiest
> solution would be to fall back on serial processing by setting the number
> of cores to 1, but is a bit unsatisfying.
>
> Is there an easy way for parallelisation under Windows/RStudio ? Do you
> have any suggestions?
>
The parallel package also supports socket clusters which will work on windows.
Look at ?makePSOCKcluster for more information.
Dan
> Best,
> Manuela
>
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