Divide Tasks for Distribution in a Cluster

Description

This divides up 1:nx into ncl lists of approximately equal size, as a way to allocate tasks to nodes in a cluster.

It is mainly for internal use, but some package authors have found it useful.

Usage

splitIndices(nx, ncl)

Arguments

Value

A list of length ncl, each element being an integer vector.

Examples

splitIndices(20, 3)

Results

R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21) -- "Bug in Your Hair"
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> library(parallel)
> png(filename="/home/ddbj/snapshot/RGM3/R_rel/result/parallel/splitIndices.Rd_%03d_medium.png", width=480, height=480)
> ### Name: splitIndices
> ### Title: Divide Tasks for Distribution in a Cluster
> ### Aliases: splitIndices
> ### Keywords: utility
> 
> ### ** Examples
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> splitIndices(20, 3)
[[1]]
[1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

[[2]]
[1]  8  9 10 11 12 13

[[3]]
[1] 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

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> dev.off()
null device 
          1 
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