Parallel Destruction

Attempt to kill the specified parallel cluster. Might have unexpected side effects when using the kill all command.

parallel.destroy(cl = NULL, destroy = FALSE)

Arguments

cl	Type: cluster or integer. A parallel cluster. When it is a number, creates a cluster with the specified number of parallel clusters. Defaults to parallel::detectCores().
destroy	Type: logical. Whether to attempt to destroy any cluster. Might have side effects. Defaults to FALSE.

Value

TRUE.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Cannot pass CRAN checks. Disabled.
library(parallel)

# Generate 2 useless clusters of 8 threads
cl <- parallel::makeCluster(8)
cl <- parallel::makeCluster(8)

# Attempts to stop the second cluster
parallel.destroy(cl)

# Kills any clusters
parallel.destroy(destroy = TRUE)
# }