tests/globals,tricky.R

In HenrikBengtsson/future.batchtools: A Future API for Parallel and Distributed Processing using 'batchtools'

source("incl/start.R")
library("listenv")

plan(batchtools_local)

## CRAN processing times:
## On Windows 32-bit, don't run these tests on batchtools
if (!fullTest && isWin32) plan(sequential)

message("*** Tricky use cases related to globals ...")

message("- Globals with the same name as 'base' objects ...")

## 'col' is masked by 'base::col' (Issue #55)
col <- 3
x %<-% { stopifnot(is.numeric(col)); col }
print(x)
stopifnot(x == col)

## https://github.com/mllg/batchtools/issues/88
message("- Globals that don't necessarily map to filenames ...")
.a <- 42L
x %<-% { .a }
print(x)
stopifnot(x == .a)

`$foo` <- 42L
x %<-% { `$foo` }
print(x)
stopifnot(x == `$foo`)


message("- flapply(x, FUN = base::vector, ...) ...")

flapply <- function(x, FUN, ...) {
  res <- listenv()
  for (ii in seq_along(x)) {
    res[[ii]] %<-% FUN(x[[ii]], ...)
  }
  names(res) <- names(x)

  ## Make sure 'x', 'FUN' and 'ii' are truly
  ## exported to the future environment
  rm(list = c("x", "FUN", "ii"))

  as.list(res)
}

x <- list(a = "integer", c = "character", c = "list")
str(list(x = x))

y0 <- lapply(x, FUN = base::vector, length = 2L)
str(list(y0 = y0))

y <- flapply(x, FUN = base::vector, length = 2L)
str(list(y = y))
stopifnot(identical(y, y0))


message("- flapply(x, FUN = future:::hpaste, ...) ...")

x <- list(a = c("hello", b = 1:100))
str(list(x = x))

y0 <- lapply(x, FUN = future:::hpaste, collapse = "; ", maxHead = 3L)
str(list(y0 = y0))

y <- flapply(x, FUN = future:::hpaste, collapse = "; ", maxHead = 3L)
str(list(y = y))
stopifnot(identical(y, y0))


message("- flapply(x, FUN = listenv::listenv, ...) ...")

x <- list()

y <- listenv()
y$A <- 3L
x$a <- y

y <- listenv()
y$A <- 3L
y$B <- c("hello", b = 1:100)
x$b <- y

print(x)

y0 <- lapply(x, FUN = listenv::mapping)
str(list(y0 = y0))

y <- flapply(x, FUN = listenv::mapping)
str(list(y = y))
stopifnot(identical(y, y0))


message("*** Tricky use cases related to globals ... DONE")

source("incl/end.R")