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\name{botapply}

\alias{botapply}

\title{# A function to use bot features in an apply fashion.}

\description{With bot apply you could write your independant loop in an apply fashion, results will be collected ans returned when all tasks will be done.}

\usage{botapply(tasks, task_processor, bot_cache_dir = "cache", ...)}

\arguments{

  \item{tasks}{A list of tasks, each task is a list of key values that will be passed as arguments to the task_processor. Note that task$out_filename is a mandatory parameter.}

  \item{task_processor}{A function that will be called for each task in the task list \emph{tasks}.}

  \item{bot_cache_dir}{the directory where task results are cached}

  \item{\dots}{Other arguments that will be passed to \emph{run_engine}.}

}

\author{Florent Chuffart}

\examples{

botapply(

  list(

    list(a=1, b=10, out_filename="task1"), 

    list(a=2, b=20, out_filename="task2"), 

    list(a=3, b=30, out_filename="task3"), 

    list(a=4, b=40, out_filename="task4")),  

  function(task) {

    return(task$a + task$b)})

# botapply(list(list(a=1, b=10, out_filename="task1")),function(task) {return(task$a + task$b)})

}