.l: data.frame with one call per line and one function argument per column
.f: function to call with the arguments from .l
...: additional, static arguments for calling .f
cores: number of cpu cores to use or a (named) list with arguments for parallelMap::parallelStart or NULL, if parallel has already been started by the caller.
use_cache: logical set to FALSE to omit re-using already distributed study- and metadata on a parallel cluster