R Observatory: Metrics for batchtools version 0.9.18

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

batchtools

0.9.18Package record

Tools for Computation on Batch Systems

6packages dependsuggested by 3

70.4Kdownloads / year

87.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michel LangCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

As a successor of the packages 'BatchJobs' and 'BatchExperiments', this package provides a parallel implementation of the Map function for high performance computing systems managed by schedulers 'IBM Spectrum LSF' (https://www.ibm.com/products/hpc-workload-management), 'Univa Grid Engine'/'Oracle Grid Engine' (https://altair.com/hpc-cloud-applications/), 'Slurm' (https://slurm.schedmd.com/), 'TORQUE/PBS' (https://adaptivecomputing.com/cherry-services/torque-resource-manager/), or 'Docker Swarm' (https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/). A multicore and socket mode allow the parallelization on a local machines, and multiple machines can be hooked up via SSH to create a makeshift cluster. Moreover, the package provides an abstraction mechanism to define large-scale computer experiments in a well-organized and reproducible way.

Changes in 0.9.18

Fixed CRAN issues with documentation

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("batchtools", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("mlr-org/batchtools")

Development version from mlr-org/batchtools. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-batchtools

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-batchtools

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-batchtools

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9.18

READMEYes · 625 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.9.18Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JSS articleCites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 66 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 91%29 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 49%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 94%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

batchtools

How these are measured

Downloads

70.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,714 · ~193/day · ~5.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.8K30 days

12.4K90 days

70.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on827 r2u58 autocran6.9K conda_forge156 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mlr-org/batchtools ↗Organization: mlr-org

184Stars

52Forks

73Open issues

2Open PRs

14Releases

961Commits

22Commit identities

cranbatchjobsbatchexperimentsslurmlsfsgedocker-swarmtorque

License file reads as LGPL-3.0 · 961 commits · Last activity 2026-10-07 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.9.19, ahead of CRAN 0.9.18 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 69%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 50
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Stars over time

2025-08-28 · 1812026-09-13 · 184

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mlr-org/batchtools on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (3)

Contributing guide (inherited from mlr-org)

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-07 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-07

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrEditorConfig

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing batchtools adds 21 packages (12 with compiled code, 22 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, fs 1.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (15)

backports base64url brew checkmate (>= 1.8.5)data.table digest fs (>= 1.2.0)parallelprogress R6 rappdirsstatsstringiutilswithr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (15)

debugme doMPI doParallel e1071 foreach future future.batchtools knitr parallelMap ranger rmarkdownrpartsnow testthat tibble

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

4indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 5

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

future.batchtools mlr3batchmark Certara.NLME8 Certara.R aslib ldaPrototype

Suggests, most downloaded first

mlr parallelMap mlr3resampling

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Michel Lang

Maintainer since 0.9.0 (2016), Author

Bernd Bischl

Author

Dirk Surmann

Contributor

Releases (18)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-08-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
chunkIds

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0.9.10
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2018-08-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
findConfFile, findTemplateFile
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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added 2 exports
assertRegistry, unwrap
0.9.7
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2017-11-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
getAlgorithmIds, getProblemIds

added 1 export
flatten
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getJobNames, setJobNames
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2017-02-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
makeClusterFunctionsTorque

added 7 exports
batchReduce, binpack, chunk, estimateRuntimes, lpt, makeClusterFunctionsTORQUE, removeRegistry
0.9.0
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2016-11-08
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-11-08
Total releases: 18 / 10 yrs
License: LGPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 703 KB

Appears in task views

High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("batchtools")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.21105/joss.00135, 10.18637/jss.v064.i11.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for batchtools version 0.9.18 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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