Parallelise Lapply

Simple wrapper around lapply and parallel::clusterApplyLB to abstract away the logic of deciding which one to use.

Usage

par_lapply(cl, fun, x, ...)

Arguments

cl

(cluster object)
Cluster created by parallel::makeCluster() or NULL

fun

(functions)
Function to be run

x

(object)
Object to be looped over

...

Extra arguments passed to fun

Value

list of results of calling fun on elements of x.