Checks whether or not we are running in a forked child process

Checks whether or not we are running in a forked child process

Usage

isForkedChild()

Value

(logical) Returns TRUE if the running in a forked child process, otherwise FALSE.

Details

Examples of setups and functions that rely on forked parallelization are parallel::makeCluster(n, type = "FORK"), parallel::mclapply(), and future::plan("multicore").