nbrOfWorkers {future}

Get the number of workers available

Description

Get the number of workers available

Usage

nbrOfWorkers(evaluator = NULL)

nbrOfFreeWorkers(evaluator = NULL, background = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

evaluator

A future evaluator function. If NULL (default), the current evaluator as returned by plan() is used.

background

If TRUE, only workers that can process a future in the background are considered. If FALSE, also workers running in the main R process are considered, e.g. when using the 'sequential' backend.

...

Not used; reserved for future use.

Value

nbrOfWorkers() returns a positive number in {1, 2, 3, ...}, which for some future backends may also be +Inf.

nbrOfFreeWorkers() returns a non-negative number in {0, 1, 2, 3, ...} which is less than or equal to nbrOfWorkers().

Examples

plan(multisession)
nbrOfWorkers()  ## == availableCores()

plan(sequential)
nbrOfWorkers()  ## == 1