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future 1.20.1 is on CRAN. It adds some new features, deprecates old and unwanted behaviors, adds a couple of vignettes, and fixes a few bugs. Interactive debugging First out among...continue reading.

parallelly adverb par·​al·​lel·​ly | \ ˈpa-rə-le(l)li \ Definition: in a parallel manner future noun fu·​ture | \ ˈfyü-chər \ Definition: existing or occurring at a later time I’ve cleaned up...continue reading.

Each time we use R to analyze data, we rely on the assumption that functions used produce correct results. If we can’t make this assumption, we have to spend a...continue reading.

Parallel ‘Digital Rain’ by Jahobr After two-and-a-half months, future 1.19.1 is now on CRAN. As usual, there are some bug fixes and minor improvements here and there (NEWS), including things...continue reading.

Parallel ‘Digital Rain’ by Jahobr After two-and-a-half months, future 1.19.1 is now on CRAN. As usual, there are some bug fixes and minor improvements here and there (NEWS), including things...continue reading.

If you ever need to figure out if a function call in R generated a random number or not, here is a simple trick that you can use in an...continue reading.

There are new versions of future and future.apply – your friends in the parallelization business – on CRAN. These updates are mostly maintenance updates with bug fixes, some improvements, and...continue reading.

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No dogs were harmed while making this release future 1.15.0 is now on CRAN, accompanied by a recent, related update of future.callr 0.5.0. The main update is a change to...continue reading.

Below are the slides for my Future: Simple Parallel and Distributed Processing in R that I presented at the useR! 2019 conference in Toulouse, France on July 9-12, 2019. My...continue reading.

New release: startup 0.12.0 is now on CRAN. This version introduces support for processing some of the R startup files with a certain frequency, e.g. once per day, once per...continue reading.

A bit late but here are my slides on Future: Friendly Parallel Processing in R for Everyone that I presented at the satRday LA 2019 conference in Los Angeles, CA,...continue reading.

Below are links to my slides from my talk on Future: Friendly Parallel Processing in R for Everyone that I presented last month at the satRday Paris 2019 conference in...continue reading.

A commonly asked question in the R community is: How can I parallelize the following for-loop? The answer almost always involves rewriting the for (…) { … } loop into...continue reading.

New versions of the following future backends are available on CRAN: future.callr – parallelization via callr, i.e. on the local machine future.batchtools – parallelization via batchtools, i.e. on a compute...continue reading.

future 1.9.0 – Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone – is on CRAN. This is a milestone release: Standard output is now relayed from futures back to...continue reading.

R.devices 2.16.0 – Unified Handling of Graphics Devices – is on CRAN. With this release, you can now easily suppress unwanted graphics, e.g. graphics produced by one of those do-everything-in-one-call...continue reading.