The safe, elegant way to do this is to use namespace scoping: it is
still not at all clear why 'other code' needs PkgB *on the search path*.
In other cases seen in CRAN submissions, 'other code' has been in PkgA's
namespace, and hence things in PkgB's exports have been visible as it
was imported by PkgA and hence in the environment tree for functions in
PkgA. Then namespace scoping will ensure that PkgB's namespace is
loaded on the cluster workers.
On 08/08/2014 00:58, Joshua Wiley wrote:
Someone kindly pointed out that it is not clear from my email why Depends
will not work. A more complete example is:
PkgA:
f <- function(ncores) {
cl <- makeCluster(ncores)
clusterEvalQ(cl, {
require(PkgB)
})
[other code]
### this is the code I want to work and need to be able to call
### PkgB functions on each of the cluster slaves
output <- parLapply(cl, 1:n, function(i) {
[code from my package and using some functions from PkgB]
})
}
As far as I know, just because I add PkgB to the Depends (or imports,
whatever) of PkgA, does not mean that the cluster started by PkgA will
automatically have PkgB loaded and functions available.
Thanks!
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear All,
What is the preferred way for Package A, to initialize a cluster, and load
Package B on all nodes?
I am writing a package that parallelizes some functions through the use of
a cluster if useRs are on a Windows machine (using parLapply and family).
I also make use of another package in some of my code, so it is necessary
to load the required packages on each slave once the cluster is started.
Right now, I have done this, by evaluating require(packages) on each
slave; however, Rcmd check has a note that I should remove the "require" in
my code.
Thanks!
Josh
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