[Rd] clusterApply arguments

[Florian Schwendinger]

Hi!

I recognized that the argument matching of clusterApply (and therefore parLapply) goes wrong when one of the arguments of the function is called "c". In this case, the argument "c" is used as cluster and the functions give the following error message "Error in checkCluster(cl) : not a valid cluster".

Of course, "c" is for many reasons an unfortunate argument name and this can be easily fixed by the user side. 

See below for a small example.

library(parallel)

clu <- makeCluster(2, "PSOCK")

fun <- function(x0, x1) (x0 + x1)
clusterApply(clu, x = 1:2, fun = fun, x1 = 1) ## OK
parLapply(cl = clu, X = 1:2, fun = fun, x1 = 1) #OK


fun <- function(b, c) (b + c)
clusterApply(clu, x = 1:2, fun = fun, c = 1) ## Error
clusterApply(cl = clu, x = 1:2, fun = fun, c = 1) ## OK 
parLapply(cl = clu, X = 1:2, fun = fun, c = 1) ## Error

stopCluster(clu)


I used "R version 3.4.3 Patched (2018-01-07 r74099".


Best regards,
Florian