Use this tag for questions specific to the future ecosystem in R - typically used for parallel and asynchronous processing. At the core of this ecosystem is Future API and the future package, which a larger set of packages then build upon.
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Internal function of R package not found when using foreach with checkpoint
This is a follow-up question of this question: How to set .libPaths (checkpoint) on workers when running parallel computation in R
Based on the answer I put the following code (simplified example) into an R package called 'test1':
#' @export
f <-…
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parallel processing in R hangs when not on mobile hotspot
I have the common issue with the R-package 'parallel' as seen here. The command
cl <- future::makeClusterPSOCK(1, outfile = NULL, verbose = TRUE)
hangs on the machine whenever I am logged onto a wifi connection. However, it works fine when I am…
C. Pedersen
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Is rJava object is exportable in future(Package for Asynchronous computing in R)
I'm trying to speed up my R code using future package by using mutlicore plan on Linux. In future definition I'm creating a java object and trying to pass it to .jcall(), But I'm getting a null value for java object in future. Could anyone please…
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Is a function like `purrr::map()` within `future.apply::future_apply()` also being ran in parallel?
Sorry if these are a dumb questions, but I know next to nothing about how parallel processing works in practice.
My questions are:
- Q1. Is a function like purrr::map() within future.apply::future_apply() also being ran in parallel?
- Q2. What…
Christopher Peralta
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