mirai-package: mirai: Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R

In mirai: Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R

mirai: Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R

Description

Designed for simplicity, a 'mirai' evaluates an R expression asynchronously in a parallel process, locally or distributed over the network. Modern networking and concurrency, built on 'nanonext' and 'NNG' (Nanomsg Next Gen), ensures reliable and efficient scheduling over fast inter-process communications or TCP/IP secured by TLS. Distributed computing can launch remote resources via SSH or cluster managers. A queued architecture readily handles more tasks than available processes, requiring no storage on the file system. Innovative features include event-driven promises, asynchronous parallel map, and automatic serialization of otherwise non-exportable reference objects.

Notes

For local mirai requests, the default transport for inter-process communications is platform-dependent: abstract Unix domain sockets on Linux, Unix domain sockets on MacOS, Solaris and other POSIX platforms, and named pipes on Windows.

This may be overriden, if desired, by specifying 'url' in the daemons() interface and launching daemons using launch_local().

Reference Manual

vignette("mirai", package = "mirai")

Author(s)

Maintainer: Charlie Gao [e-mail] (ORCID)

Other contributors:

• Joe Cheng [e-mail] [contributor]

• Posit Software, PBC (03wc8by49) [copyright holder, funder]

• Hibiki AI Limited [copyright holder]

See Also

Useful links:

• https://mirai.r-lib.org

• https://github.com/r-lib/mirai

• Report bugs at https://github.com/r-lib/mirai/issues

mirai documentation built on June 8, 2025, 12:53 p.m.