## not necessarily reproducible examples. library(parallel) cl <- makeCluster(getOption("cl.cores", 2)) clusterApply(cl, 1:2, get("+"), 3) xx <- 1 clusterExport(cl, "xx") clusterCall(cl, function(y) xx + y, 2) ## Use clusterMap like an mapply example clusterMap(cl, function(x,y) seq_len(x) + y, c(a = 1, b = 2, c = 3), c(A = 10, B = 0, C = -10)) parSapply(cl, 1:20, get("+"), 3) ## PR14898 parSapply(cl, 1, identity) ## A bootstrapping example, which can be done in many ways: clusterEvalQ(cl, { ## set up each worker. Could also use clusterExport() library(boot) cd4.rg <- function(data, mle) MASS::mvrnorm(nrow(data), mle$m, mle$v) cd4.mle <- list(m = colMeans(cd4), v = var(cd4)) NULL }) res <- clusterEvalQ(cl, boot(cd4, corr, R = 100, sim = "parametric", ran.gen = cd4.rg, mle = cd4.mle)) library(boot) cd4.boot <- do.call(c, res) boot.ci(cd4.boot, type = c("norm", "basic", "perc"), conf = 0.9, h = atanh, hinv = tanh) stopCluster(cl)