R Observatory: Metrics for doFuture version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

doFuture

1.3.0

Use Foreach to Parallelize via the Future Framework

70packages depend

290.7Kdownloads / year

91.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Henrik BengtssonFirst published 2016-06-2528 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The 'future' package provides a unifying parallelization framework for R that supports many parallel and distributed backends doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-048. The 'foreach' package provides a powerful API for iterating over an R expression in parallel. The 'doFuture' package brings the best of the two together. There are three ways to use this package. The recommended approach is to use 'y <- foreach(...) %do% { ... } |> futurize()' via the 'futurize' package (doi:10.48550/arXiv.2601.17578). The second alternative, which was formerly recommended, is to use 'y <- foreach(...) %dofuture% { ... }', which does not require using 'registerDoFuture()' and has many advantages over '%dopar%'. The third alternative is the traditional 'foreach' approach by registering the 'foreach' adapter 'registerDoFuture()' and so that 'y <- foreach(...) %dopar% { ... }' parallelizes with the 'future' framework.

Install

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

install.packages("doFuture", 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("futureverse/doFuture")

Development version from futureverse/doFuture. 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-dofuture

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-doFuture

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-doFuture

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.06

91.5%

Coverage · measured lines

67%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

290.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #817 · ~796/day · ~24.2K/mo

Releases R versions

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19K30 days

61.2K90 days

290.7K1 year

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Also on11.2K r2u126 autocran17.9K conda_forge70 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ futureverse/dofuture

83Stars

7Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

914Commits

4Contributors

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914 commits · Last activity 2026-08-03 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-22 · 832026-07-07 · 83

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/futureverse/dofuture on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

foreach future

Imports (5)

future.apply globals iteratorsparallelutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

doRNG markdown R.rsp

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

70direct

36indirect

and 22 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-06-25
Total releases: 28 / 10 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Download size: 77 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R

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Format

Bengtsson, H. (2026). doFuture: Use Foreach to Parallelize via the Future Framework (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.doFuture

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for doFuture version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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