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title: 'future: Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone'
version: 1.33.0
doi: 10.32614/RJ-2021-048
abstract: The purpose of this package is to provide a lightweight and unified Future
  API for sequential and parallel processing of R expression via futures. The simplest
  way to evaluate an expression in parallel is to use `x %<-% expression ` with `plan(multisession)`.
  This package implements sequential, multicore, multisession, and cluster futures.
  With these, R expressions can be evaluated on the local machine, in parallel a set
  of local machines, or distributed on a mix of local and remote machines. Extensions
  to this package implement additional backends for processing futures via compute
  cluster schedulers, etc. Because of its unified API, there is no need to modify
  any code in order switch from sequential on the local machine to, say, distributed
  processing on a remote compute cluster. Another strength of this package is that
  global variables and functions are automatically identified and exported as needed,
  making it straightforward to tweak existing code to make use of futures.
authors:
- family-names: Bengtsson
  given-names: Henrik
  email: henrikb@braju.com
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: A Unifying Framework for Parallel and Distributed Processing in R using Futures
  authors:
  - family-names: Bengtsson
    given-names: Henrik
    email: henrikb@braju.com
  year: '2021'
  journal: The R Journal
  doi: 10.32614/RJ-2021-048
  url: https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2021-048
  volume: '13'
  issue: '2'
  start: '208'
  end: '227'
repository: https://henrikbengtsson.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/future
url: https://future.futureverse.org
contact:
- family-names: Bengtsson
  given-names: Henrik
  email: henrikb@braju.com