thisutils (version 0.0.7)

parallelize_fun: Parallelize a function

Description

Parallelize a function

Usage

parallelize_fun(x, fun, cores = 1, export_fun = NULL, verbose = TRUE)

Value

A list of computed results

Arguments

x

A vector or list to apply over.

fun

The function to be applied to each element.

cores

The number of cores to use for parallelization with foreach::foreach. Default is 1.

export_fun

The functions to export the function to workers.

verbose

Logical value, default is TRUE. Whether to print progress messages.

Examples

parallelize_fun(1:3, function(x) {
  Sys.sleep(0.2)
  x^2
})

parallelize_fun(list(1, 2, 3), function(x) {
  Sys.sleep(0.2)
  x^2
}, cores = 2)