Implementing mclapply() on Windows: a primer on embarrassingly parallel computation on multicore systems with R

An easy way to run R code in parallel on a multicore system is with the mclapply() function. Unfortunately, mclapply() does not work on Windows machines because the mclapply() implementation relies on forking and Windows does not support forking. For me, this is somewhat of a headache because I am used to using mclapply(), and […]