| isClosure {nws} | R Documentation |
Determine if a Worker Function is a Closure
Description
This is a heuristic function that is used by eachWorker and
eachElem to guess if the worker function is a closure.
Details
If the closure option wasn't specified via the eo argument to
eachWorker or eachElem, then this function is used to guess if
the worker function is a closure. It can be very useful to use
closures with eachWorker and eachElem, but if not used properly,
you could accidentally include a lot of unnecessary data in the tasks,
thus hurting your performance.
This function is included as a development tool so you can manually
test your worker functions. This could be useful if you are getting
a warning from eachWorker or eachElem, and are trying to determine
how to modify the function or set the closure option.
Examples
# this should return FALSE
isClosure(sqrt)
f <- function(x) function(y) x + y
g <- f(1)
# this should return TRUE
isClosure(g)
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