par7zip {Orcs}

Parallelized 7-Zip Compression

Description

By calling the Unix terminal or Windows command prompt, this function performs parallelized 7-zip compression of selected files based on the built-in parallel package.

Usage

par7zip(outfile, nodes = 1L, ...)

Arguments

outfile

Target file for compression as character. A file extension compatible with 7-zip needs to be included, see supported formats. If missing, this defaults to the found input file names with a ⁠.7z⁠ extension attached.

nodes

Number of cores to use for parallelization as integer, defaults to 1L.

...

Additional arguments passed to list.files().

Value

Output filename(s) as character.

Author(s)

Florian Detsch

See Also

list.files(), system()