Your error is in thinking that environment variables are the same thing as
options. While environment variables might be used to set initial values of
certain options, options are completely separate from environment variables.
If you want to change the option on the fly, then change the option.
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Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On December 7, 2016 6:26:55 AM PST, Marc Girondot via R-help
<r-help@r-project.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
> From the documentation of ?options
>
>Options set in package parallel
>These will be set when package parallel (or its namespace) is loaded if
>
>not already set.
>
>mc.cores:
>a integer giving the maximum allowed number of additional R processes
>allowed to be run in parallel to the current R process. Defaults to the
>
>setting of the environment variable MC_CORES if set. Most applications
>which use this assume a limit of 2 if it is unset.
>
>Then I try:
> > getOption("mc.cores")
>NULL
>
>I suspect that my environment variable MC_CORES is not set. I test and
>that's right:
> > Sys.getenv("MC_CORES")
>[1] ""
>
>Then I do:
> > Sys.setenv(MC_CORES=4)
> > Sys.getenv("MC_CORES")
>[1] "4"
>
>But when I try again getOption("mc.cores"); it does not change:
> > getOption("mc.cores")
>NULL
>
>Probably I do something wrong but I don't see what !
>
>Thanks
>
>Marc
>
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