Hi,

Is it possible to run bplapply in the background to computing nodes (by batchtools) instead of blocking the R session?

I saw a related discussion about running a parallel job with the future.batchtools package. https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel/issues/64

This feature is what exactly I wished.

## submit job to nodes
f <- plan({ bplapply expr })
## check finshed or not
resolved(f)
## collect the results
v <- value(f)

Thanks, Qiang

No, there are no plans to implement this functionality. A simple hack on non-Windows is

> res = mcparallel( bplapply(1:4, function(i) { Sys.sleep(i); i }) )
> 1 + 2
[1] 3
> str(mccollect(res))
List of 1
 $ 97731:List of 4
  ..$ : int 1
  ..$ : int 2
  ..$ : int 3
  ..$ : int 4