Package: mirai 2.4.1

Charlie Gao

mirai: Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R

Designed for simplicity, a 'mirai' evaluates an R expression asynchronously in a parallel process, locally or distributed over the network. Modern networking and concurrency, built on 'nanonext' and 'NNG', ensures reliable scheduling over fast inter-process communications or TCP/IP secured by TLS. Launch remote resources via SSH or cluster managers for distributed computing. Scales efficiently to millions of tasks over thousands of connections, requiring no storage on the file system due to its inherently queued architecture. Innovative features include event-driven promises, asynchronous parallel map, and seamless serialization of otherwise non-exportable reference objects.

Authors:Charlie Gao [aut, cre], Joe Cheng [ctb], Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd], Hibiki AI Limited [cph]

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NEWS

# Install 'mirai' in R:
install.packages('mirai', repos = c('https://community.r-multiverse.org', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/r-lib/mirai/issues

Pkgdown site:https://mirai.r-lib.org

On CRAN:

Conda:

asyncasynchronous-tasksconcurrencydistributed-computinghigh-performance-computingparallel-computing

12.30 score 260 stars 14 packages 175 scripts 16k downloads 36 exports 1 dependencies

Last updated 3 days ago from:170d021683 (on v2.4.1). Checks:10 OK. Indexed: no.

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windows-develOK83
windows-releaseOK93
windows-oldrelOK83
wasm-releaseOK113
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Exports:.flat.progress.stopcall_miraicluster_configcollect_miraidaemondaemonsdaemons_setdispatchereverywherehost_urlis_error_valueis_miraiis_mirai_erroris_mirai_interruptis_mirai_maplaunch_locallaunch_remotelocal_urlmake_clustermiraimirai_mapnextcodenextgetnextstreamon_daemonregister_serialremote_configrequire_daemonsserial_configssh_configstatusstop_clusterstop_miraiunresolved

Dependencies:nanonext

Communications Backend for R

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mirai - Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R

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Mirai Map

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Promises - Shiny and Plumber

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Serialization - Arrow, ADBC, polars, torch

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