doMC

1.3.8

Foreach Parallel Adaptor for 'parallel'

16packages depend

345.3Kdownloads / year

50.9%test coverage

10/10checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Folashade DanielFirst published 2009-06-2717 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides a parallel backend for the %dopar% function using the multicore functionality of the parallel package.

Install

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

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

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

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-domc

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-doMC

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

Health

CRAN checks

10OK

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

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

Documentation

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Downloads

345.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,371 · ~946/day · ~28.8K/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 2.14.0foreach iteratorsparallel

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

16direct

0indirect

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Folashade Daniel

Maintainer · added in 1.3.8

Authors (2)

Revolution Analytics

Author, Copyright holder · added in 1.2.1

Steve Weston

Author · added in 1.3.4

Revolution Analytics

Author, Copyright holder · added in 1.2.1

Listed in earlier versions (4)

REvolution Computing

no longer listed · 1.1.0 to 1.2.0

Rich Calaway

no longer listed · 1.3.4 to 1.3.5

Hong Ooi

no longer listed · 1.3.6

Michelle Wallig

no longer listed · 1.3.7

Package Timeline

17 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.3.7
2020-10-15 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.3.6
2019-07-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.3.5
2017-12-12 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2015-10-13 · diff ↗

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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2014-02-28 · diff ↗
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2013-10-29 · diff ↗
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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2009-10-06 · diff ↗
1.1.1
2009-06-30 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2009-06-27
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17

Package metadata

First published: 2009-06-27
Total releases: 17 / 17 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 151 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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