future.batchtools

0.22.0

A Future API for Parallel and Distributed Processing using 'batchtools'

6packages depend

57.8Kdownloads / year

64.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Henrik BengtssonFirst published 2017-06-0316 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implementation of the Future API doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-048 on top of the 'batchtools' package. This allows you to process futures, as defined by the 'future' package, in parallel out of the box, not only on your local machine or ad-hoc cluster of machines, but also via high-performance compute ('HPC') job schedulers such as 'LSF', 'OpenLava', 'Slurm', 'SGE', and 'TORQUE' / 'PBS', e.g. 'y <- future.apply::future_lapply(files, FUN = process)'.

Install

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

install.packages("future.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("futureverse/future.batchtools")

Development version from futureverse/future.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-future.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

# 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-future.batchtools

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-future.batchtools

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.03

64.0%

Coverage · measured lines

97%

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Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 94%
References docs: 23%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ futureverse/future.batchtools

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10Forks

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1Open PRs

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722Commits

4Contributors

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722 commits · Last activity 2026-07-21 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Governance and community (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.2.0future

Imports (5)

parallelly batchtoolsutilscheckmate stringi

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

globals future.apply listenv markdown R.rsp

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

0indirect

FAMoS SimDesign batchtools futureverse nncc targets

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-03
Total releases: 16 / 9 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 2.1)
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 84 KB
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