as.cluster.gce_instance function

Create a future cluster for GCE objects

S3 method for as.cluster() in the future package.

## S3 method for class 'gce_instance'
as.cluster(x, project = gce_get_global_project(),
  zone = gce_get_global_zone(), rshopts = ssh_options(x), ...,
  recursive = FALSE)

Arguments

• x: The instance to make a future cluster
• project: The GCE project
• zone: The GCE zone
• rshopts: Options for the SSH
• ...: Other arguments passed to makeDockerClusterPSOCK
• recursive: Not used.

Returns

A cluster object.

Details

Only works for r-base containers created via gce_vm_template("r-base") or for docker containers created using the --net=host argument flag

Examples

## Not run:

vm <- gce_vm("r-base", name = "future", predefined_type = "f1-micro")
plan(cluster, workers = vm)  ## equivalent to workers = as.cluster(vm)
x %<-% { Sys.getinfo() }
print(x)
## End(Not run)