ugghhh---apologies. although in 2020, it would be nice if the mailing list had an automatic html filter (or even bouncer!)
I am using macos. alas, my experiments suggest that `mclapply()` on a 32-core intel system with 64GB of RAM, where the input data frame is 8GB and the output is about 500MB per core (to be stitched together into about 16GB), the system starts swapping like crazy, comes to a halt, and then usually crashes. /iaw ______________________________________________ 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.