R Observatory: Metrics for futureverse version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

futureverse

0.3.0Package record

Install 'Futureverse' in One Go

0packages depend

5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Henrik BengtssonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

The 'Futureverse' is a set of packages for parallel and distributed processing with the 'future' package at its core (Bengtsson, 2021, doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-048). Another notable component is the 'futurize' package (Bengtsson, 2026, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2601.17578) for turning common sequential calls into parallel ones via a single function futurize(). Similarly, the progressify() of the 'progressify' package makes common calls to report of progress. This package is designed to make it easy to install common 'Futureverse' packages in a single step. This package is intended for end-users, interactive use, and R scripts. Packages must not list it as a dependency - instead, explicitly declare each 'Futureverse' package as a dependency as needed.

Changes in 0.3.0

Significant Changes

Add **progressify** as an imported package.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from futureverse/futureverse. 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-futureverse

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-futureverse

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-futureverse

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: 46 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.0

READMEYes · 274 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Cites an R Journal article

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 50%1 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,407 · ~14/day · ~415/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34930 days

88990 days

5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on122 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

futureverse/futureverse ↗Organization: futureverse

8Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

54Commits

2Commit identities

futureverseparallel-processingr-package

54 commits · Last activity 2026-07-04 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-07-24 · 62026-07-07 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/futureverse/futureverse on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (2)

Code of conduct (inherited from futureverse)Contributing guide (inherited from futureverse)

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-30

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing futureverse adds 20 packages (8 with compiled code, 7.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, furrr 890 KB, futurize 819 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (7)

future futurize future.apply furrr doFuture progressify progressr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

future.batchtools future.callr future.mirai RhpcBLASctl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Releases (4)

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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-06-07
Total releases: 4 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 21 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("futureverse")

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

It points to 10.32614/rj-2021-048, 10.48550/arxiv.2601.17578.

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 futureverse version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-19, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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