Running R code in parallel
Base R: parallel
package
The parallel
package has been part of the base
package group since R version 2.14.0.
This means that it is comes with R, however it needs to be loaded in a session before its content can be accessed:
library(parallel)
Most parallel approaches in R build on this package.
All other packages mentioned in this lesson are external packages and need to be installed with install.packages()
.
parallelly
package
The parallelly
package—part of the futureverse suite of packages developed by Henrik Bengtsson—adds functionality to the parallel
package.