makeDockerClusterPSOCK function

Make the Docker cluster on Google Compute Engine

Called by as.cluster

makeDockerClusterPSOCK(workers, docker_image = "rocker/r-parallel",
  rscript = c("docker", "run", "--net=host", docker_image, "Rscript"),
  rscript_args = NULL, install_future = FALSE, ..., verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

• workers: The VMs being called upon
• docker_image: The docker image to use on the cluster
• rscript: The Rscript command to run on the cluster
• rscript_args: Arguments to the RScript
• install_future: Whether to check if future is installed first (not needed if using docker derived from rocker/r-parallel which is recommended)
• ...: Other arguments passed to makeClusterPSOCK
• verbose: How much feedback to show

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson henrikb@braju.com