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Create Default Cluster for Windowing

Source: R/defaultCluster.R
defaultCluster.Rd

Creates a default cluster using one less than the total cores available on the system. By default this uses forking, which is not be available on Windows. Hence, the fork parameter has no effect on Windows.

Usage

defaultCluster(fork = TRUE)

Arguments

fork

If TRUE uses forking to create the cluster (Unix like systems only)

Value

A cluster object for parallel processing

Examples

if (FALSE) {
cl <- defaultCluster()
stopCluster(cl)
cl <- defaultCluster(FALSE)
stopCluster(cl)
}