R package ‘futureverse’ - Easily Install and Load the ‘Futureverse’

The Futureverse is a unifying framework for parallelization and distributed processing in R. This package, futureverse, is a utility wrapper package that makes it easy to install and load the most common Futureverse packages in one go.

Usage

library(futureverse) will load the common Futureverse packages:

• future - the core Futureverse package
• future.apply - Futureverse variants of base-R apply functions
• furrr - Futureverse variants of purrr apply functions
• doFuture - Futureverse adaptors for the foreach package
• progressr - Near-live progress updates when using Futureverse

Installation

Call:

install.packages("futureverse")

to install future, future.apply, furrr, doFuture, and progressr.

To install also additional parallel backends, future.batchtools, future.callr, and future.mirai, use:

install.packages("futureverse", dependencies = TRUE)