batchtools: Tools for Computation on Batch Systems

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.

Version: 0.9.18
Depends: R (≥ 3.0.0)
Imports: backports (≥ 1.1.2), base64url (≥ 1.1), brew, checkmate (≥ 1.8.5), data.table (≥ 1.11.2), digest (≥ 0.6.9), fs (≥ 1.2.0), parallel, progress (≥ 1.1.1), R6, rappdirs, stats, stringi, utils, withr (≥ 2.0.0)
Suggests: debugme, doMPI, doParallel, e1071, foreach, future, future.batchtools, knitr, parallelMap, ranger, rmarkdown, rpart, snow, testthat, tibble
Published: 2025-08-20
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.batchtools
Author: Michel Lang ORCID iD [cre, aut], Bernd Bischl [aut], Dirk Surmann ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Michel Lang <michellang at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/mlr-org/batchtools/issues
License: LGPL-3
URL: https://github.com/mlr-org/batchtools, https://batchtools.mlr-org.com
NeedsCompilation: yes
Citation: batchtools citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
In views: HighPerformanceComputing
CRAN checks: batchtools results

Documentation:

Reference manual: batchtools.html , batchtools.pdf
Vignettes: batchtools (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: batchtools_0.9.18.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: batchtools_0.9.18.zip, r-release: batchtools_0.9.18.zip, r-oldrel: batchtools_0.9.18.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): batchtools_0.9.18.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): batchtools_0.9.18.tgz, r-release (x86_64): batchtools_0.9.18.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): batchtools_0.9.18.tgz
Old sources: batchtools archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends: mlr3batchmark
Reverse imports: aslib, Certara.NLME8, Certara.R, epistasisGA, future.batchtools, InPAS, ldaPrototype, mlr3resampling, Rcwl
Reverse suggests: BiocParallel, bsseq, mlr, parallelMap, pulsar, scone, systemPipeR
Reverse enhances: simpleCache

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