futurize: Parallelize Common Functions via One Magic Function

The futurize() function transpiles calls to sequential map-reduce functions such as base::lapply(), purrr::map(), 'foreach::foreach() %do% { ... }' into concurrent alternatives, providing you with a simple, straightforward path to scalable parallel computing via the 'future' ecosystem <doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-048>. By combining this function with R's native pipe operator, you have an convenient way for speeding up iterative computations with minimal refactoring, e.g. 'lapply(xs, fcn) |> futurize()', 'purrr::map(xs, fcn) |> futurize()', and 'foreach::foreach(x = xs) %do% { fcn(x) } |> futurize()'. Other map-reduce packages that be "futurized" are 'BiocParallel', 'plyr', 'crossmap' packages. There is also support for growing set of domain-specific packages, including 'boot', 'glmnet', 'mgcv', 'lme4', and 'tm'.

Version:	0.1.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0), future (> 1.58.0)
Suggests:	future.apply, foreach, doFuture, purrr, furrr, crossmap, plyr, BiocParallel, glmnet, boot, lme4, mgcv, tm, tools, commonmark, base64enc
Published:	2026-01-22
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.futurize (may not be active yet)
Author:	Henrik Bengtsson [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer:	Henrik Bengtsson <henrikb at braju.com>
License:	GPL (≥ 3)
URL:	https://www.futureverse.org, https://github.com/futureverse/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-US
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	futurize results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

futurize.html , futurize.pdf

Vignettes:

Parallelize base-R apply functions (source) Parallelize 'purrr' functions (source) Parallelize 'crossmap' functions (source) Parallelize 'plyr' functions (source) Parallelize 'foreach' functions (source) Parallelize 'BiocParallel' functions (source) Parallelize 'boot' functions (source) Parallelize 'caret' functions (source) Parallelize 'glmnet' functions (source) Parallelize 'lme4' functions (source) Parallelize 'mgcv' functions (source) Parallelize 'tm' functions (source)

Downloads:

Package source:	futurize_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): futurize_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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