[R] untaring files in parallel with foreach and doSNOW?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 24/07/2012 17:42, arielob wrote:
> By the way, the code works under MacOS with:
>
>> library(foreach)
>> library(doMC)
>> registerDoMC()
>> foreach(i=tar.files.vector) %dopar% untar(i)
>
> So it has to do with how I write the foreach command on windows... I tried
> reading the vignettes and they didn't help much on this.

So why are you asking us how to use third-party software whose 
documentation is not comprehensible to you?

This would be very easy to do in R itself (see package 'parallel').  And 
BTW the example it that package's vignette of installing R packages in 
parallel does do a lot of untarring in parallel


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