starburst

0.3.9

Seamless AWS Cloud Bursting for Parallel R Workloads

0packages depend

2.2Kdownloads / year

23.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Scott FriedmanFirst published 2026-03-192 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A 'future' backend that enables seamless execution of parallel R workloads on 'Amazon Web Services' ('AWS', https://aws.amazon.com), including 'EC2' and 'Fargate'. 'staRburst' handles environment synchronization, data transfer, quota management, and worker orchestration automatically, allowing users to scale from local execution to 100+ cloud workers with a single line of code change.

Install

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

install.packages("starburst", 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("scttfrdmn/starburst")

Development version from scttfrdmn/starburst. 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-starburst

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-starburst

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-starburst

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.8 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.39

23.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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OK2026-07-29
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-24
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
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ERROR2026-04-25
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OK2026-03-20
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Documentation

READMEYes · 807 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 6%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,315 · ~6/day · ~185/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ scttfrdmn/starburst

11Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

154Commits

1Contributors

License Apache-2.0 · 154 commits · Last activity 2026-08-01 · 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)

renv

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (15)

future globals paws.compute paws.storage paws.management paws.cost.management paws.security.identity qs2 uuid renv jsonlite crayon digest base64enc processx

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

future.apply testthat knitr rmarkdown withr mockery

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Scott Friedman

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Scott Friedman

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

2 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.3.9Latest
2026-07-22 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.8
2026-03-19
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-19
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: not tracked yet
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