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crew

A Distributed Worker Launcher Framework

v1.3.0 · Sep 12, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

In computationally demanding analysis projects, statisticians and data scientists asynchronously deploy long-running tasks to distributed systems, ranging from traditional clusters to cloud services. The 'NNG'-powered 'mirai' R package by Gao (2023) <doi:10.5281/zenodo.7912722> is a sleek and sophisticated scheduler that efficiently processes these intense workloads. The 'crew' package extends 'mirai' with a unifying interface for third-party worker launchers. Inspiration also comes from packages. 'future' by Bengtsson (2021) <doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-048>, 'rrq' by FitzJohn and Ashton (2023) <https://github.com/mrc-ide/rrq>, 'clustermq' by Schubert (2019) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz284>), and 'batchtools' by Lang, Bischel, and Surmann (2017) <doi:10.21105/joss.00135>.

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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies cli collections data.table later mirai nanonext processx promises ps R6 rlang tibble tidyselect crew.aws.batch crew.cluster fastreg geotargets targets crew

Version History

new 1.3.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.3.0 ← 1.2.1 diff Sep 12, 2025
updated 1.2.1 ← 1.2.0 diff Jun 8, 2025
updated 1.2.0 ← 1.1.2 diff Jun 5, 2025
updated 1.1.2 ← 1.1.0 diff May 7, 2025
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.0 diff Apr 9, 2025
updated 1.0.0 ← 0.10.2 diff Feb 2, 2025
updated 0.10.2 ← 0.10.1 diff Nov 14, 2024
updated 0.10.1 ← 0.10.0 diff Nov 2, 2024
updated 0.10.0 ← 0.9.5 diff Oct 10, 2024
updated 0.9.5 ← 0.9.4 diff Jun 23, 2024
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updated 0.9.3 ← 0.9.2 diff May 21, 2024
updated 0.9.2 ← 0.9.1 diff Apr 23, 2024
updated 0.9.1 ← 0.9.0 diff Mar 24, 2024
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updated 0.7.0 ← 0.6.0 diff Dec 10, 2023
updated 0.6.0 ← 0.5.0 diff Oct 11, 2023
updated 0.5.0 ← 0.4.0 diff Sep 17, 2023