Re: [R] MC_CORES and mc.cores for parallel package

2016-12-07 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Wed, 7 Dec 2016, Marc Girondot via R-help wrote: Hi, From the documentation of ?options Options set in package parallel These will be set when package parallel (or its namespace) is loaded if not already set. mc.cores: a integer giving the maximum allowed number of additional R processes

Re: [R] MC_CORES and mc.cores for parallel package

2016-12-07 Thread Bert Gunter
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > Your error is in thinking that environment variables are the same thing as > options. While environment variables might be used to set initial values of > certain options, options are completely separate from environment variables. > If y

Re: [R] MC_CORES and mc.cores for parallel package

2016-12-07 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Your error is in thinking that environment variables are the same thing as options. While environment variables might be used to set initial values of certain options, options are completely separate from environment variables. If you want to change the option on the fly, then change the option

[R] MC_CORES and mc.cores for parallel package

2016-12-07 Thread Marc Girondot via R-help
Hi, From the documentation of ?options Options set in package parallel These will be set when package parallel (or its namespace) is loaded if not already set. mc.cores: a integer giving the maximum allowed number of additional R processes allowed to be run in parallel to the current R proce