[Rd] mccollect with NULL in R 3.6

[Tomas Kalibera]

On 5/1/19 12:25 AM, Gergely Daróczi wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I'm running into issues with calling mccollect on a list containing NULL
> using R 3.6 (this used to work in 3.5.3):
>
> jobs <- lapply(
>      list(NULL, 'foobar'),
>      function(x) mcparallel(identity(x)))
> mccollect(jobs, wait = FALSE, timeout = 0)
> #> Error in names(res) <- pnames[match(s, pids)] :
> #>   'names' attribute [2] must be the same length as the vector [1]
>
> Note, setting a "name" for the jobs does not help, but the above works with
> "wait=TRUE", and also if I change the order of NULL and "foobar", although
> in that case, the second value (NULL) is ommitted.  It also works with
> mclapply fine.
>
> Any ideas/suggestion on how to get mccollect work with the above example?.

NULL is not a valid job identification. Perhaps mccollect() could give a 
clearer error message, but I don't see, given its documentation, what 
else than throwing an error it should do. What is the problem you were 
trying to solve?

Best
Tomas

>
> Thanks,
> Gergely
>
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