title: Deprecation of multicore (mclapply) in R 3.0
body: <p>I understand <code>multicore</code> is deprecated as of R version 2.14 and I was advised to start using the package <code>parallel</code> which comes built into the base of R 3.0. </p>
  
  <p>Going through the documentation of <code>parallel</code>, I found that there are mainly two functions to call <code>parallel</code> and <code>collect</code> for example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>p &lt;- parallel(1:10)
  q &lt;- parallel(1:20)
  collect(list(p, q)) # wait for jobs to finish and collect all results
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Since I'm not very familiar with the details of parallel computing, I've always used <code>multicore's</code> <code>mclapply</code> out of the box in my code. I wondering how I could take advantage of the new <code>parallel</code> package similarly to <code>mclapply</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Cheers</p>