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degauss-org / cchmc_batch_geocoder

A docker container for geocoding, assigning census tract, and deprivation index to addresses
https://degauss.org/cchmc_batch_geocoder
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detecting Windows platform to disable parallel computing #6

Closed cole-brokamp closed 2 years ago

cole-brokamp commented 5 years ago

Write into R script to detect if Docker is running on Windows and then change parallel to FALSE here:

https://github.com/cole-brokamp/cchmc_batch_geocoder/blob/c0ce0c14648f4d4f1f92f1af4668ac9ad33feb52/geocode.R#L79-L83

This would prevent the issue of it failing and having the user have to manually set the docker hypervisor to only use 1 CPU.

But is it even possible to detect the platform if the R process is running in Windows?

An alternative might be to default to non-parallel computation and provide a runtime flag to enable it.