Publications by JottR on R

Using Kubernetes and the Future Package to Easily Parallelize R in the Cloud

08.04.2021

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 on a Kubernetes cluster. This allows you to easily doing parallel computing in R in the cloud. One adva...

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parallelly 1.25.0: availableCores(omit=n) and, finally, built-in SSH support for MS Windows 10 users

30.04.2021

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 can now use availableCores(omit = n) to ask for all but n CPU cores makeClusterPSOCK() can finally use the ...

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parallelly 1.26.0: Fast, concurrent setup of parallel workers (finally)

10.06.2021

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 find a TCP port that is currently available Faster setup of local, parallel workers In R 4.0.0, wh...

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progressr 0.8.0: RStudio’s progress bar, Shiny progress updates, and absolute progress

11.06.2021

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 addition to signalling relative amounts of progress, it’s now also possible to signal total amounts If you�...

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matrixStats: Consistent Support for Name Attributes via GSoC Project

22.08.2021

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 handling and returning name attributes. This feature is added to make matrixStats functions handle names in th...

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Future Improvements During 2021

07.01.2022

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future 1.24.0: Forwarding RNG State also for Stand-Alone Futures

22.02.2022

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 changes. One of many possible random number generators. This one was carefully designed by XKCD [CC BY...

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