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How many cores does this machine have?

The parallel package has a function detectCores() that determines the number of cores in a machine.

How many cores does this machine have?

This exercise is part of the course

Writing Efficient R Code

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Exercise instructions

  • Load the parallel package.
  • Using the detectCores() function, store the number of cores in an object called no_of_cores.
  • Print no_of_cores.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Load the parallel package
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# Store the number of cores in the object no_of_cores
no_of_cores <- ___

# Print no_of_cores
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