doChunks: Execute a function in chunks.

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Execute a function in chunks.

Description

Execute the function f(x,...) in chunks of chunk-size elements each. Wikidata and Wikimedia API have limits to execute a query. Wikidata has timeout limits, Wikimedia about the number of titles or pageIds. This function executes sequentially the function f over chunks of elements to prevent errors.

Usage

doChunks(f, x, chunksize, ...)

Arguments

f	The function to execute.
x	Vector of entities or titles/pageids.
chunksize	The number of elements in x to execute the function.
...	The f arguments.

Value

The results of execute f using all values of x

Author(s)

Angel Zazo, Department of Computer Science and Automatics, University of Salamanca

wikiTools documentation built on April 3, 2025, 9:38 p.m.