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Hello, I'm trying to do some bootstrapping in a parallel environment (Linux cluster) in order to estimate confidence intervals for a certain parameter. Following the example in the documentation of the "snow" package (http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/cluster/cluster.html), I launch my computations by something like > cl.nuke.boot <- +

...X: A vector (atomic or list) for ?parLapply? and ?parSapply?, an array for ?parApply?. ==> Nothing is said for the 'X' argument of parLapplyLB() and parSapplyLB(). Inconsistencies --------------- The only function in that man page with a 'seq' argument is clusterSplit(), which is a questionable choice since split() (and strsplit()) use 'x'. Choosing 'seq' is also inconsistent with all the other cluster* and par* functions in that man page which use either 'x' or 'X'. Unless this 'seq' argument is different in nature but it...