batchtools

0.9.18

Tools for Computation on Batch Systems

10packages depend

83.4Kdownloads / year

87.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michel LangFirst published 2016-11-0818 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

As a successor of the packages 'BatchJobs' and 'BatchExperiments', this package provides a parallel implementation of the Map function for high performance computing systems managed by schedulers 'IBM Spectrum LSF' (https://www.ibm.com/products/hpc-workload-management), 'Univa Grid Engine'/'Oracle Grid Engine' (https://altair.com/hpc-cloud-applications/), 'Slurm' (https://slurm.schedmd.com/), 'TORQUE/PBS' (https://adaptivecomputing.com/cherry-services/torque-resource-manager/), or 'Docker Swarm' (https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/). A multicore and socket mode allow the parallelization on a local machines, and multiple machines can be hooked up via SSH to create a makeshift cluster. Moreover, the package provides an abstraction mechanism to define large-scale computer experiments in a well-organized and reproducible way.

Install

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

install.packages("batchtools", 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("mlr-org/batchtools")

Development version from mlr-org/batchtools. 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-batchtools

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-batchtools

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.45

87.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 625 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 91%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 94%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

83.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,585 · ~228/day · ~6.9K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mlr-org/batchtools

182Stars

52Forks

88Open issues

5Open PRs

14Releases

949Commits

18Contributors

cranbatchjobsbatchexperimentsslurmlsfsgedocker-swarmtorque

License LGPL-3.0 · 949 commits · Last activity 2026-07-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mlr-org/batchtools on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrEditorConfig

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (15)

backports base64url brew checkmate (>= 1.8.5)data.table digest fs (>= 1.2.0)parallelprogress R6 rappdirsstatsstringiutilswithr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (15)

debugme doMPI doParallel e1071 foreach future future.batchtools knitr parallelMap ranger rmarkdownrpartsnow testthat tibble

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

4indirect

mlr3batchmark Certara.NLME8 Certara.R aslib future.batchtools ldaPrototype mlr mlr3resampling parallelMap pulsar

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Michel Lang

Maintainer, Author

Authors (2)

Michel Lang

Maintainer, Author

Bernd Bischl

Author

Contributors (1)

Dirk Surmann

Contributor

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-11-08
Total releases: 18 / 10 yrs
License: LGPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 703 KB
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