Package: mirai 2.4.0

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. The queued architecture scales efficiently to millions of tasks over thousands of connections, requiring no storage on the file system. 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://r-multiverse.r-universe.dev', '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

11.39 score 254 stars 14 packages 141 scripts 4.9k downloads 36 exports 1 dependencies

Last updated 11 days ago from:c6167e9dc1 (on v2.4.0). Checks:10 OK. Indexed: no.

TargetResultTotal time
linux-devel-x86_64OK120
source / vignettesOK155
linux-release-x86_64OK118
macos-release-arm64OK106
macos-oldrel-arm64OK131
windows-develOK96
windows-releaseOK81
windows-oldrelOK86
wasm-releaseOK94
wasm-oldrelOK128

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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Community FAQs

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For Package Authors

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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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