crew.cluster

0.4.0

Crew Launcher Plugins for Traditional High-Performance Computing Clusters

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Overview

About

Maintained by William Michael LandauFirst published 2023-04-2515 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

In computationally demanding analysis projects, statisticians and data scientists asynchronously deploy long-running tasks to distributed systems, ranging from traditional clusters to cloud services. The 'crew.cluster' package extends the 'mirai'-powered 'crew' package with worker launcher plugins for traditional high-performance computing systems. Inspiration also comes from packages 'mirai' by Gao (2023) https://github.com/r-lib/mirai, 'future' by Bengtsson (2021) doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-048, 'rrq' by FitzJohn and Ashton (2023) https://github.com/mrc-ide/rrq, 'clustermq' by Schubert (2019) doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz284), and 'batchtools' by Lang, Bischl, and Surmann (2017). doi:10.21105/joss.00135.

Install

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

install.packages("crew.cluster", 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/crew.cluster")

Development version from wlandau/crew.cluster. 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-crew.cluster

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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-crew.cluster

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# 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-crew.cluster

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.44

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 20%
References docs: 0%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ wlandau/crew.cluster

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261 commits · Last activity 2026-04-17 · 0% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (10)

crew lifecycle nanonext ps R6 rlangutilsvctrs xml2 yaml

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People (4)

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William Michael Landau

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Authors (3)

William Michael Landau

Author, Maintainer

Brendan Furneaux

Author · added in 0.3.1

Michael Gilbert Levin

Author

Eli Lilly and Company

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Eli Lilly and Company

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Landau

no longer listed · 0.0.2 to 0.4.0

Levin

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.4.0

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-04-25
Total releases: 15 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 170 KB
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