rxSetComputeContext: Get and Set the compute context

Description

Get or set the active compute context for RevoScaleR computations

Usage

  rxSetComputeContext(computeContext, ...) 

  rxGetComputeContext() 

Arguments

computeContext

character string specifying class name or description of the specific class to instantiate, or an existing RxComputeContext object. Choices include: "RxLocalSeq" or "local", "RxLocalParallel" or "localpar", "RxSpark" or "spark", "RxHadoopMR" or "hadoopmr", and "RxForeachDoPar" or "dopar".

...

any other arguments are passed to the class generator determined from computeContext.

Value

rxSetComputeContext returns the previously active compute context invisibly. rxGetComputeContext returns the active compute context.

Author(s)

Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Technical Support

See Also

RxComputeContext, rxOptions, rxGetOption rxExec.

Examples

 ## Not run:

origComputeContext <- rxSetComputeContext("localpar")
x <- 1:10
rxExec(print, x, elemType = "cores", timesToRun = 10)
rxSetComputeContext( origComputeContext )
## End(Not run)