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R package ‘futureverse’ - Install ‘Futureverse’ in One Go

The Futureverse is a unifying framework for parallelization and distributed processing in R. This package, futureverse, is a utility wrapper package that makes it easy to install most common Futureverse packages in one go.

TL;DR

Start by configuring Futureverse to parallelize on the current computer:

future::plan(future::multisession)

After this, all it takes is a minor tweak to make your existing lapply(), map(), or foreach() code to run in parallel, e.g.

## future.apply: futurized version of base R apply
library(future.apply)
y <-        lapply(X, slow_fcn)
y <- future_lapply(X, slow_fcn)

## furrr: futurized version of purrr
library(furrr)
y <- X |>        map(slow_fcn)
y <- X |> future_map(slow_fcn)

## foreach: futurized version
library(foreach)
y <- foreach(x = X) %do%       slow_fcn(x)
y <- foreach(x = X) %dofuture% slow_fcn(x)

Installation

Call:

install.packages("futureverse")

to install:

• future - the core Futureverse package
• future.apply - Futureverse variants of base-R apply functions
• furrr - Futureverse variants of purrr apply functions
• doFuture - Futureverse adaptors for the foreach package
• progressr - Near-live progress updates when using Futureverse

Call:

install.packages("futureverse", dependencies = TRUE)

to install also additional parallel backends:

• future.mirai - a modern alternative to built-in plan(multisession)
• future.callr - a memory efficient alternative to built-in plan(multisession)
• future.batchtools - parallelize on HPC job schedulers; Load Sharing Facility (LSF), OpenLava, TORQUE/PBS, Sun/Son of/Oracle/Univa/Altair Grid Engine (SGE), Slurm

Want to learn more?

• Tutorials and Workshops: https://www.futureverse.org/tutorials.html
• Blog: https://www.futureverse.org/blog.html
• Publications: https://www.futureverse.org/publications.html
• Support: https://github.com/orgs/futureverse/discussions

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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