buildCluster: Builds a cluster of working nodes.

In bogdanoancea/inference: R package for computing the number of individuals in the target population conditioned on the number of individuals detected by the MNO and auxiliary information.

Description

Builds a cluster of working nodes using the parallel package. On Unix-like operating systems it builds as "FORK" cluster while on Windows it builds a "SOCKET" cluster. The number of working nodes equals the number of available (logical) cores as it is detected by the call of detectCores() function. On Windows, it also exports a list of variables and an environment passed as arguments. This is an internal function of the package, and it is not available to be direclty called by users.

Usage

buildCluster(varlist, env)

Arguments

varlist	A list of variables to be exported to every working node.
env	An environment to be exported to every working node.

Value

A cluster object used to distribute the computations.

bogdanoancea/inference documentation built on Nov. 28, 2020, 9:20 p.m.