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future 1.19.1 – Making Sure Proper Random Numbers are Produced in Parallel Processing

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 needed by the next version of furrr. For those of you who use Slurm or LSF/OpenLava as a … Continue reading →

future 1.19.1 – Making Sure Proper Random Numbers are Produced in Parallel Processing

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 needed by the next version of furrr. For those of you who use Slurm or LSF/OpenLava as a … Continue reading →

Detect When the Random Number Generator Was Used

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 interactive R session. Add the following to your ~/.Rprofile(*): if (interactive()) { invisible(addTaskCallback(local({ last <- … Continue reading →

future and future.apply – Some Recent Improvements

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 preparations for upcoming changes. It’s been some time since I blogged about these packages, so … Continue reading →

e-Rum 2020 Slides on Progressr

Source: Wiktionary.org I presented Progressr: An Inclusive, Unifying API for Progress Updates (15 minutes; 20 slides) at e-Rum 2020, on June 17, 2020: HTML (incremental Google Slides; requires online access) PDF (flat slides) Abstract Video - to be posted by the organizers I am … Continue reading →

rstudio::conf 2020 Slides on Futures

Design: Dan LaBar I presented Future: Simple Async, Parallel & Distributed Processing in R Why and What’s New? at rstudio::conf 2020 in San Francisco, USA, on January 29, 2020. Below are the slides for my talk (17 slides; ~18+2 minutes): HTML (incremental Google Slides; … Continue reading →

future 1.15.0 – Lazy Futures are Now Launched if Queried

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 the Future API: resolved() will now also launch lazy futures Although this change does not look much to the world, … Continue reading →

useR! 2019 Slides on Futures

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 talk (25 slides; ~15+3 minutes): Title: Future: Simple Parallel and Distributed Processing in R HTML (incremental … Continue reading →

startup – run R startup files once per hour, day, week, …

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 week, or once per month. See below for two examples. startup::startup() is cross platform. The startup package makes it … Continue reading →

SatRday LA 2019 Slides on Futures

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, USA on April 6, 2019. My talk (33 slides; ~45 minutes): Title: : Friendly Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for … Continue reading →

SatRday Paris 2019 Slides on Futures

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 Paris, France (February 23, 2019). My talk (32 slides; ~40 minutes): Title: Future: Friendly Parallel Processing in R for … Continue reading →

Parallelize a For-Loop by Rewriting it as an Lapply Call

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 something that looks like a y <- lapply(...) call. If you can achieve that, you can parallelize it via for instance y … Continue reading →

Maintenance Updates of Future Backends and doFuture

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 cluster with job schedulers (SLURM, SGE, Torque/PBS, etc.) but also on the local … Continue reading →

future 1.9.0 – Output from The Future

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 the master R session - regardless of where the futures are processed! Disclaimer: A future’s output is relayed only … Continue reading →

R.devices – Into the Void

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 functions that we all bump into once in a while. To suppress graphics, the R.devices package … Continue reading →