autometric

0.1.2

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Overview

About

Maintained by William Michael LandauFirst published 2024-10-104 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Intense parallel workloads can be difficult to monitor. Packages 'crew.cluster', 'clustermq', and 'future.batchtools' distribute hundreds of worker processes over multiple computers. If a worker process exhausts its available memory, it may terminate silently, leaving the underlying problem difficult to detect or troubleshoot. Using the 'autometric' package, a worker can proactively monitor itself in a detached background thread. The worker process itself runs normally, and the thread writes to a log every few seconds. If the worker terminates unexpectedly, 'autometric' can read and visualize the log file to reveal potential resource-related reasons for the crash. The 'autometric' package borrows heavily from the methods of packages 'ps' doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.ps and 'psutil'.

Install

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

install.packages("autometric", 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("wlandau/autometric")

Development version from wlandau/autometric. 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-autometric

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-autometric

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Repository

GitHub ↗ wlandau/autometric

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53 commits · Last activity 2025-10-23

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (2)

graphicsutils

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none

Suggests (3)

grDevicesps tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

crew targets

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

William Michael Landau

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

William Michael Landau

Author, Maintainer

Dave Daeschler

Eli Lilly and Company

Jay Loden

Posit Software, PBC

Giampaolo Rodola

Funders (1)

Eli Lilly and Company

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Landau

no longer listed · 0.0.5 to 0.1.2

Package Timeline

4 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.2Latest
2024-11-15 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.1
2024-11-14 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2024-10-30 · diff ↗
0.0.5
2024-10-10
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-10-10
Total releases: 4 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 165 KB
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