Articles by JottR on R
parallelly 1.32.0: makeClusterPSOCK() Didn’t Work with Chinese and Korean Locales
progressr 0.10.1: Plyr Now Supports Progress Updates also in Parallel
parallelly 1.31.1: Better at Inferring Number of CPU Cores with Cgroups and Linux Containers
future 1.24.0: Forwarding RNG State also for Stand-Alone Futures
future 1.24.0 is on CRAN. It comes with one significant update related to random number generation, further deprecation of legacy future strategies, a slight improvement to plan() and tweaks(), and some bug fixes. Below are the most important chang... [Read more...]
Future Improvements During 2021
parallelly 1.29.0: New Skills and Less Communication Latency on Linux
matrixStats: Consistent Support for Name Attributes via GSoC Project
Author: Angelina Panagopoulou, GSoC student developer, undergraduate in the Department of Informatics & Telecommunications (DIT), University of Athens, Greece
We are glad to announce recent CRAN releases of matrixStats with support for hand...
progressr 0.8.0: RStudio’s progress bar, Shiny progress updates, and absolute progress
progressr 0.8.0 is on CRAN. It comes with some new features:
A new ‘rstudio’ handler that reports on progress via the RStudio job interface in RStudio
withProgressShiny() now updates the detail part, instead of the message part
In ad...
parallelly 1.26.0: Fast, concurrent setup of parallel workers (finally)
parallelly 1.26.0 is on CRAN. It comes with one major improvement and one new function:
The setup of parallel workers is now much faster, which comes from using a concurrent, instead of sequential, setup strategy
The new freePort() can be used to...
parallelly 1.25.0: availableCores(omit=n) and, finally, built-in SSH support for MS Windows 10 users
A piece of an ice core - more pleasing to look at than yet another illustration of a CPU core
(Image credit: Ludovic Brucker, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)
parallelly 1.25.0 is on CRAN. It comes with two major improvements:
You ca...
Using Kubernetes and the Future Package to Easily Parallelize R in the Cloud
This is a guest post by Chris Paciorek, Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley.
In this post, I’ll demonstrate that you can easily use the future package in R on a
cluster of machines running in the cloud, specifically ...
future.BatchJobs – End-of-Life Announcement
My Keynote ‘Future’ Presentation at the European Bioconductor Meeting 2020
NYC R Meetup: Slides on Future
future 1.20.1 – The Future Just Got a Bit Brighter
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 the new features, and a long-running feature request, is the ad... [Read more...]
parallelly, future – Cleaning Up Around the House
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 around the house - with the recent releas... [Read more...]
Trust the Future
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 lot of time validating every nitty detail. Luckily, we don’t have to do ...
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 ... [Read more...]
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 ... [Read more...]
Copyright © 2022 | MH Corporate basic by MH Themes