Thanks for the response, Jeremie. I wholeheartedly agree about testing. In my case, this feature would be used purely to reduce computation time. I’m calculating an expensive (and embarrassingly parallel) likelihood function, and for some parameter combinations my objective function diverges to infinity. In those instances, I’d like to throw an error that stops subsequent computations and that I could catch to return a value of infinity. I agree, though, that the default should allow all processes to finish.
What I’ve suggested does not seem possible with mclapply(). Do you know how I could suggest this as a feature request to the maintainer of the parallel package? Thanks, Giovanni ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
