Construct a worker

Builds the Site one party contributes to a multi-party protocol. A Site becomes a worker once it has been wired and given its public parameters; from that point it is autonomous, computing and encrypting on its own.

Usage

make_worker(name, data, contribution_fn)

Arguments

name

short identifier shown in printed output. A single non-empty string; it names the site in every error message, so an empty or vectorized name is rejected at construction.

data

whatever contribution_fn needs in order to answer — a dataset, a database connection, a cohort identifier.

contribution_fn

a function with signature function(data, theta) returning this site's contribution at theta as a plain numeric value. It does not encrypt; contribute() does that. May return NA to signal that theta is non-evaluable here.

Value

a LocalSite.

See also

RemoteSite for a site whose contribution is produced outside this R session.