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Orcs (version 1.2.3)

par7zip: Parallelized 7-Zip Compression

Description

By calling the Unix terminal or Windows command prompt, this function performs parallelized 7-zip compression of selected files based on the built-in parallel package.

Usage

par7zip(outfile, nodes = 1L, ...)

Value

Output filename(s) as character.

Arguments

outfile

Target file for compression as character. A file extension compatible with 7-zip needs to be included, see supported formats. If missing, this defaults to the found input file names with a .7z extension attached.

nodes

Number of cores to use for parallelization as integer, defaults to 1L.

...

Additional arguments passed to list.files().

Author

Florian Detsch

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