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
Exercise instructions
- Load the
parallelpackage. - Using the
detectCores()function, store the number of cores in an object calledno_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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