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R is a truly beautiful language! ✨

#RStats #futureverse #StayTuned

A #Slurm user just confirmed that "yay it works. Pretty sick!"

Thanks to excellent feedback from several users, it'll soon be even easier to distribute #rstats code via #HPC job schedulers using future.batchtools

https://future.batchtools.futureverse.org/

#parallel #futureverse

Thank you #user2025 and everyone who participated and contributed to this amazing conference! It was great to see you all <3

My first talk ever on #future was at useR! 2016, which I ended with a wish for a

plan(future.p2p::cluster)

backend. It took nine years to get there. My useR! 2025 slides on:

Futureverse P2P: Peer-to-Peer Parallelization in R (Share compute among friends across the world)

are available via https://www.futureverse.org/talks.html

#RStats #parallel #futureverse

photo by @schloerke

Thank you #user2025 and everyone who participated and contributed to this amazing conference! It was great to see you all <3

My first talk ever on #future was at useR! 2016, which I ended with a wish for a

plan(future.p2p::cluster)

backend. It took nine years to get there. My useR! 2025 slides on:

Futureverse P2P: Peer-to-Peer Parallelization in R (Share compute among friends across the world)

are available via https://www.futureverse.org/talks.html

#RStats #parallel #futureverse

photo by @schloerke

Thank you #user2025 and everyone who participated and contributed to this amazing conference! It was great to see you all <3

My first talk ever on #future was at useR! 2016, which I ended with a wish for a

plan(future.p2p::cluster)

backend. It took nine years to get there. My useR! 2025 slides on:

Futureverse P2P: Peer-to-Peer Parallelization in R (Share compute among friends across the world)

are available via https://www.futureverse.org/talks.html

#RStats #parallel #futureverse

photo by @schloerke

Thank you #user2025 and everyone who participated and contributed to this amazing conference! It was great to see you all <3

My first talk ever on #future was at useR! 2016, which I ended with a wish for a

plan(future.p2p::cluster)

backend. It took nine years to get there. My useR! 2025 slides on:

Futureverse P2P: Peer-to-Peer Parallelization in R (Share compute among friends across the world)

are available via https://www.futureverse.org/talks.html

#RStats #parallel #futureverse

photo by @schloerke

Thank you #user2025 and everyone who participated and contributed to this amazing conference! It was great to see you all <3

My first talk ever on #future was at useR! 2016, which I ended with a wish for a

plan(future.p2p::cluster)

backend. It took nine years to get there. My useR! 2025 slides on:

Futureverse P2P: Peer-to-Peer Parallelization in R (Share compute among friends across the world)

are available via https://www.futureverse.org/talks.html

#RStats #parallel #futureverse

photo by @schloerke

The future package celebrates ten years on CRAN as of June 19, 2025. I just posted the second in a series of blog posts highlighting recent improvements to the #futureverse ecosystem:

* Setting Future Plans in R Functions - and Why You Probably Shouldn't

available at https://www.jottr.org/2025/06/25/with-plan/

You can now do:

my_fcn <- function(...) {
with(plan(multisession), local = TRUE)
...
}

but, as explained in the post, I recommend not doing any that, unless really needed

#RStats #parallel

The future package celebrates ten years on CRAN as of June 19, 2025. I just posted the first of a series of blog posts highlighting recent improvements to the #futureverse ecosystem:

* Future got better at finding global variables

available at https://www.jottr.org/2025/06/23/future-got-better-at-finding-global-variables/

#RStats #parallel

The future package turns ten today 🥳 To celebrate, I’ll start a blog series covering recent improvements that set us up for new, exciting ways for writing concurrent #RStats - neater than what our trusty workhorses future.apply & furrr offer

https://www.jottr.org/2025/06/19/futureverse-10-years/

#parallel #futureverse

Liberating the future!

I'm happy to share that major progress has been made on the #Futureverse roadmap. Already the next release comes with new, exciting, frequently asked features, and more are ready to ship in following release.

Release candidate #1 of the 'future' package is now available on R-universe;

install.packages("future", repos = c("https://futureverse.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Please give it a try🙏 As usual, these updates should be 100% backward.

#rstats #parallel

#FutureVerse #Atlanta #Georgia
WSB Atlanta:
New $100M science museum planned for Downtown Atlanta aims to be ‘museum of the future’

"Plans have been announced to bring a new museum to Downtown Atlanta that will showcase Georgia’s and America’s most advanced technologies."
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/new-100m-science-museum-planned-downtown-atlanta-aims-be-museum-future/XTZWUAOGSRHPVKVLP5ZE6AXF3Y/

Allen Verliebten und denen, die es noch werden wollen, wünschen wir einen schönen Valentins-Tag...!
(Fan-Art by "rede")

#captainfuture #scifi #sciencefiction #valentinesday #valentintstag #spaceopera #kult #retro #futurelovesjoan #futureverse #zeichentrick #anime

Allen Verliebten und denen, die es noch werden wollen, wünschen wir einen schönen Valentins-Tag...!
(Fan-Art by "rede")

#captainfuture #scifi #sciencefiction #valentinesday #valentintstag #spaceopera #kult #retro #futurelovesjoan #futureverse #zeichentrick #anime

Allen Verliebten und denen, die es noch werden wollen, wünschen wir einen schönen Valentins-Tag...!
(Fan-Art by "rede")

#captainfuture #scifi #sciencefiction #valentinesday #valentintstag #spaceopera #kult #retro #futurelovesjoan #futureverse #zeichentrick #anime

Allen Verliebten und denen, die es noch werden wollen, wünschen wir einen schönen Valentins-Tag...!
(Fan-Art by "rede")

#captainfuture #scifi #sciencefiction #valentinesday #valentintstag #spaceopera #kult #retro #futurelovesjoan #futureverse #zeichentrick #anime

Oldie but goldie:
Das ist jetzt auch schon ˈne Weile her... Ich grusele mich zwar immer noch wegen meines Fehlers - vor lauter Nervosität habe ich "50er Jahre" statt "60er" gesagt, doch seht es mir bitte nach, denn es war mein erster Podcast 😉

#captainfuture #scifi #sciencefiction #kult #entertainmentblog #futuremania #spaceopera #anime #zeichentrick #lieblingsserie #capitaineflam #retro #futureverse

https://entertainment-blog.net/podcast-captain-future-der-tv-kult-aus-den-80er

Heute legen wir Euch mal die Sektion zur „COMET“, dem überlichtschnellen Raumschiff der Future-Mannschaft, ans Herz: Hier finden sich jede Menge Informationen zur Animé-Version inclusive realitischer Maßangaben (Länge, Duchmesser der Bugkugel, etc.), aber auch zu Hamiltons "Original"...
Link: https://www.futuremania.de/comet.html

#captainfuture #scifi #sciencefiction #spaceopera #kult #anime #zeichentrick #lieblingsserie #spaceship #capitaineflam #retro #futureverse

‘Ready Player One’ to Be Turned Into Massive Metaverse Experience in Partnership With Warner Bros. Discovery
#Variety #News #Futureverse #ReadyPlayerOne #WarnerBrosDiscovery

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/ready-player-one-metaverse-warner-bros-discovery-1235862190/

AI Venture Futurverse Hatches Readyverse Studios; Starts With Ernest Cline’s ‘Ready Player One’
#News #AI #ErnestCline #Futureverse #ReadyPlayerOne #ReadyverseStudios

https://deadline.com/2024/01/futurverse-launches-readyverse-studios-ernest-cline-ready-player-one-1235695022/

AI Venture Futurverse Hatches Readyverse Studios; Starts With Ernest Cline’s ‘Ready Player One’
#News #AI #ErnestCline #Futureverse #ReadyPlayerOne #ReadyverseStudios

https://deadline.com/2024/01/futurverse-launches-readyverse-studios-ernest-cline-ready-player-one-1235695022/

AI Venture Futurverse Hatches Readyverse Studios; Starts With Ernest Cline’s ‘Ready Player One’
#News #AI #ErnestCline #Futureverse #ReadyPlayerOne #ReadyverseStudios

https://deadline.com/2024/01/futurverse-launches-readyverse-studios-ernest-cline-ready-player-one-1235695022/

AI Venture Futurverse Hatches Readyverse Studios; Starts With Ernest Cline’s ‘Ready Player One’
#News #AI #ErnestCline #Futureverse #ReadyPlayerOne #ReadyverseStudios

https://deadline.com/2024/01/futurverse-launches-readyverse-studios-ernest-cline-ready-player-one-1235695022/

Reebok’s Blockchain-Powered Gaming Experience Set to Transform Fashion - Source: Futureverse, Reebok
AI and metaverse technologies firm Futureverse and Ame... - https://cryptonews.com/news/reeboks-blockchain-powered-gaming-experience-set-to-transform-fashion.htm #non-fungibletoken #blockchainnews #futureverse #blockchain #metaverse #gaming #reebok #sport #web3 #nft #ai

If you're interested in discussing #parallel processing in #RStats at #PositConf2023, please let me know or reply here. I'm hoping we can have an informal hangout during Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday to discuss what's missing, what's new and what's on the roadmap for parallelization in R. It doesn't have to be on just #Futureverse

(I'll arrive late Sunday Sept 17 and leave early Thursday Sept 21)

Metaverse Project Futureverse's Co-Founders Start $50M Venture Fund - The Born Ready venture studio will invest in early stage Web3 and metaverse projects. - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/08/03/metaverse-project-futureverses-co-founders-start-50m-venture-fund/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines #fundingrounds #futureverse #metaverse #finance #funds #news #web3

Crypto Startups Secure $201.4M in Funding: Futureverse and RISC Zero Lead the Way - Last week, venture capital and investment firms invested $201.4 million in crypto project... - https://cryptonews.com/news/crypto-startups-secure-2014m-funding-futureverse-risc-zero-lead-way.htm #blockchainnews #venturecapital #investmentfirm #investments #futureverse #investors

Futureverse Raises $54 Million to Fuel Expansion of Diversified Metaverse Platform - Futureverse, a crypto tech and gaming startup, has secured $54 million in Series A fundin... - https://cryptonews.com/news/futureverse-raises-54-million-fuel-expansion-of-diversified-metaverse-platform.htm #metaversegaming #blockchainnews #futureverse #metaverse

Futureverse Raises $54 Million to Fuel Expansion of Diversified Metaverse Platform - Futureverse, a crypto tech and gaming startup, has secured $54 million in Series A fundin... - https://cryptonews.com/news/futureverse-raises-54-million-fuel-expansion-of-diversified-metaverse-platform.htm #metaversegaming #blockchainnews #futureverse #metaverse

Futureverse Raises $54 Million to Fuel Expansion of Diversified Metaverse Platform - Futureverse, a crypto tech and gaming startup, has secured $54 million in Series A fundin... - https://cryptonews.com/news/futureverse-raises-54-million-fuel-expansion-of-diversified-metaverse-platform.htm #metaversegaming #blockchainnews #futureverse #metaverse

Futureverse Raises $54 Million to Fuel Expansion of Diversified Metaverse Platform - Futureverse, a crypto tech and gaming startup, has secured $54 million in Series A fundin... - https://cryptonews.com/news/futureverse-raises-54-million-fuel-expansion-of-diversified-metaverse-platform.htm #metaversegaming #blockchainnews #futureverse #metaverse

Futureverse Raises $54 Million to Advance AI and Metaverse Integration - Futureverse, an AI and metaverse technology company, has raised $54 million in funding to... - https://cryptonews.com/news/futureverse-raises-54-million-advance-ai-metaverse-integration.htm #futureverse #metaverse #nftnews #ai

CLEANUP:

The 'multiprocess' backend has finally been removed from the future package.

If you get something like "Error: object 'multiprocess' is not exported by 'namespace:future'", please use plan(multisession) instead.

It was deprecated in Oct 2020, it produced *lots* of annoying warnings since May 2022, it reverted to sequential processing in Feb 2023 with warnings, it became defunct in March 2023, and has now been removed.

#RStats #parallel #futureverse

Hey, I'm now recommending using %dofuture% instead of %dopar% when parallelizing with foreach(), e.g.

library(doFuture)

y <- foreach(x=X, .export="slow_fcn") %dofuture% {
slow_fcn(x)
}

See https://www.jottr.org/2023/06/26/dofuture/ for why

#RStats #parallel #futureverse

@henrikbengtsson Thanks. I'll look into it. I had seen a reference to it (I think on a post from you here on the fediverse) but at the time it wasn't clear what the payoff was to moving to that framework if I didn't need conditional execution. #rstats #FutureVerse

doFuture 1.0.0 on CRAN with a new %dofuture% operator replacing %dopar%:

y <- foreach(…) %dofuture% { … }

Avoids the need for registerDoFuture(), avoids some %dopar% potholes, has built-in RNG support, and better error handling

https://dofuture.futureverse.org/

#RStats #futureverse #parallel

Next version of doFuture starts taking shape. Can you spot what's new?

library(doFuture)
plan(multisession)

y <- foreach(x = 1:4, y = 1:10) %dofuture% {
z <- x + y
slow_sqrt(z)
}

#RStats #parallel #futureverse

@gdbassett
Not built-in in #futureverse or the other #parallel frameworks/backends

There have been different #RStats attempts/proof-of-concepts to provide such an "object", but AFAIK, nothing took off. It's a hard problem to solve robustly (race conditions & deadlocks) and be cross-platform

A database engine is probably the most off-the-shelf solution, but not all of them support concurrent writes (e.g. don't know where file-based SQLite is on this)

Always better to return values, if you can

future 1.31.0 on CRAN. Mainly cleaning up legacy code blocking me from adding new, exciting features.

Now, if you still rely on

plan(multiprocess)

, which has been deprecated since Oct 2020 (sic!), for parallelization, it'll now run in sequential mode, and you'll get heaps of deprecation warnings. If that doesn't do it, and you keep using 'multiprocess', I've got more aces up my sleeve. Just saying 🤠

https://future.futureverse.org/

#RStats #futureverse #parallel

@hadleywickham Background: In companion w %dofuture% (https://mastodon.social/@henrikbengtsson/109741654631611943), I'd like to introduce:

z <- future_foreach2(X=1:3, Y=3:1, FUN=function(x, y) {
sqrt(x/y)
})

to be the same as:

z <- foreach(X=1:3, Y=3:1) %dofuture% {
sqrt(x/y)
}

In the #futureverse, prefix 'future_' indicates a duality, e.g. future_lapply() for lapply() & future_map() for purrr::map(). So, we cannot call it future_foreach(), because that would incorrectly suggest it is a duality of foreach()

2/

I'm working on an update to {doFuture} and a new %dofuture% infix operator:

y <- foreach(x = 1:3) %dofuture% {
something something
}

which removes the need for %dopar% (which btw comes with a few hidden bugs) and registerDoFuture().

%dofuture% will give you a consistent #futureverse behavior, just like when you use {future.apply} and {furrr}. Same for random number generation (RNG), which will be built-in, so no need for %dorng%

#RStats #parallel #HPC #RNG

https://www.futureverse.org/