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multicore::sapply?

Is there anything like sapply in the multicore library? Or do I have to unlist(mclapply(..)) in order to achieve this?

If it does not exist: what would the reasoning be?

Thanks in advance and sorry if this is a stupid question!

Solution

  • If you look at the code of sapply (and its helper function simplify2array) you will see that unlist(obj) is exactly what will be done in the case where obj is a list of items all of length==1. sapply is a lot more complex than just unlisting lists, however. What is still very unclear is what problem you are trying to solve.