R Observatory: Metrics for futurize version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

futurize

1.0.0

Parallelize Common Functions via One Magic Function

3packages depend

6.1Kdownloads / year

78.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Henrik BengtssonFirst published 2026-01-224 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The futurize() function turns sequential map-reduce functions such as base::lapply(), purrr::map(), 'foreach::foreach() %do% { ... }' into concurrent alternatives, providing you with a simple, straightforward path to scalable parallel computing via the 'future' ecosystem doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-048. By combining this transpiler function with R's native pipe operator, you have a convenient way for speeding up iterative computations with minimal refactoring, e.g. 'lapply(xs, fcn) |> futurize()', 'purrr::map(xs, fcn) |> futurize()', and 'foreach::foreach(x = xs) %do% { fcn(x) } |> futurize()'. Other map-reduce packages that can be "futurized" are 'BiocParallel', 'plyr', 'crossmap', 'pbapply' packages. There is also support for a growing set of domain-specific packages on CRAN (e.g. 'boot', 'caret', 'DiceKriging', 'ez', 'fgsea', 'fwb', 'gamlss', 'glmmTMB', 'glmnet', 'kernelshap', 'lme4', 'metafor', 'mgcv', 'modelsummary', 'parameters', 'partykit', 'pls', 'pvclust', 'riskRegression', 'rugarch', 'sandwich', 'seriation', 'shapr', 'Sim.DiffProc', 'SimDesign', 'stars', 'strucchange', 'SuperLearner', 'tm', 'TSP', and 'vegan') and on Bioconductor (e.g. 'DESeq2', 'GenomicAlignments', 'GSVA', 'Rsamtools', 'scater', 'scuttle', 'SingleCellExperiment', and 'sva').

Install

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

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

Development version from futureverse/futurize. 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-futurize

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-futurize

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-futurize

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 12.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.09

78.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

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
OK2026-07-16
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-13
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 6 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-09
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-01
11 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-19
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,063 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

6.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,779 · ~17/day · ~511/mo

Releases R versions

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62730 days

2.4K90 days

6.1K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ futureverse/futurize

28Stars

3Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

573Commits

2Contributors

futurefutureversepackageparallel-programmingrtranspiler

License Apache-2.0 · 573 commits · Last activity 2026-08-03 · +3.7% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/futureverse/futurize on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

49 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0future

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

3direct

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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

4 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.0.0Latest
2026-06-12 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.0
2026-04-01 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2026-03-18 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2026-03-10
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-22
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 819 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("futurize")

Format

Bengtsson, H. (2026). futurize: Parallelize Common Functions via One Magic Function (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.futurize

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for futurize version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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