removeDistributedFiles {affyPara}R Documentation

Remove distributed files from slaves

Description

This function removes distributed files from a special path at the disk at all slaves in a computer cluster.

Usage

removeDistributedFiles(cluster, path=tempdir(), verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

cluster A cluster object obtained from the function makeCluster in the SNOW package.
path A character that defines which path (inclusive files) should be removed at every slave. Default: tempdir()
verbose A logical value. If TRUE it writes out some messages.

Details

This function removes distributed files from a special path at the disk at all slaves in a computer cluster.

For using this function a computer cluster using the SNOW package has to be started.

Value

If verbose = TRUE, result of removing (successfully / not successfully) will be noticed with a message.

Author(s)

Markus Schmidberger schmidb@ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de, Ulrich Mansmann mansmann@ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de

Examples

## Not run: 
library(affyPara)

c1 <- makeCluster(10)

removeDistributedFiles(c1, verbose=TRUE)

stopCluster(c1)
## End(Not run)

[Package affyPara version 1.2.1 Index]