future.mirai: A 'Future' API for Parallel Processing using 'mirai'

Implementation of the 'Future' API <doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-048> on top of the 'mirai' package. This allows you to process futures, as defined by the 'future' package, in parallel out of the box, on your local machine or across remote machines. Contrary to back-ends relying on the 'parallel' package (e.g. 'multisession') and socket connections, 'mirai_cluster' and 'mirai_multisession', provided here, can run more than 125 parallel R processes.

Version: 0.2.0
Depends: future
Imports: mirai (≥ 0.12.1), parallelly, utils
Suggests: future.tests, future.apply, listenv
Published: 2024-04-18
Author: Henrik Bengtsson ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph], Charlie Gao ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Henrik Bengtsson <henrikb at braju.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/future.mirai/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://future.mirai.futureverse.org, https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/future.mirai
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: future.mirai citation info
Materials: README NEWS
CRAN checks: future.mirai results

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Reference manual: future.mirai.pdf

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