ParallelLogger

3.5.1

Support for Parallel Computation, Logging, and Function Automation

16packages depend

68.8Kdownloads / year

82.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Martijn SchuemieFirst published 2018-07-0520 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Support for parallel computation with progress bar, and option to stop or proceed on errors. Also provides logging to console and disk, and the logging persists in the parallel threads. Additional functions support function call automation with delayed execution (e.g. for executing functions in parallel).

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("ParallelLogger", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("OHDSI/ParallelLogger")

Development version from OHDSI/ParallelLogger. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-parallellogger

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-ParallelLogger

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.33

82.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-30
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 239 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 31%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

68.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,483 · ~189/day · ~5.7K/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ohdsi/parallellogger

13Stars

8Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

12Releases

179Commits

10Contributors

hades

179 commits · Last activity 2025-11-21

Stars over time

2025-06-05 · 132026-07-07 · 13

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5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ohdsi/parallellogger on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)

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CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Git structural (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (8)

snow xml2 jsonlitemethodsutilsrstudioapi memuseparallel

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

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Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

16direct

0indirect

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Martijn Schuemie

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Martijn Schuemie

Author, Maintainer

Marc Suchard

Author

Observational Health Data Science and Informatics

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-05
Total releases: 20 / 8 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 550 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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