tests/globals,formulas.R

In HenrikBengtsson/future: Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone

source("incl/start.R")

library("datasets") ## cars data set
library("stats")    ## lm(), poly(), xtabs()

message("*** Globals - formulas ...")

## (i) lm(<formula>):
## From example("lm", package = "stats")
ctl <- c(4.17, 5.58, 5.18, 6.11, 4.50, 4.61, 5.17, 4.53, 5.33, 5.14)
trt <- c(4.81, 4.17, 4.41, 3.59, 5.87, 3.83, 6.03, 4.89, 4.32, 4.69)
group <- gl(2, 10, 20, labels = c("Ctl", "Trt"))
weight <- c(ctl, trt)
ctl <- trt <- NULL
## Truth:
fit_i <- lm(weight ~ group - 1)
print(fit_i)

## (ii) xtabs(~ x):
x <- c(1, 1, 2, 2, 2)
## Truth:
tbl_ii <- xtabs(~ x)
print(tbl_ii)

## (iii) lm(<formula>, data = cars):
exprs <- list(
  # "remove-intercept-term" form of no-intercept
  a = substitute({ lm(dist ~ . -1, data = cars) }),
  # "make-intercept-zero" form of no-intercept
  b = substitute({ lm(dist ~ . +0, data = cars) }),
  # doesn't do what we want here
  c = substitute({ lm(dist ~ speed + speed ^ 2, data = cars) }),
  # gets us a quadratic term
  d = substitute({ lm(dist ~ speed + I(speed ^ 2), data = cars) }),
  # avoid potential multicollinearity
  e = substitute({ lm(dist ~ poly(speed, 2), data = cars) })
)

## (iv) Globals - map(x, ~ expr):
## A fake purrr::map() function with limited functionality
map <- function(.x, .f, ...) {
  if (inherits(.f, "formula")) {
    expr <- .f[[-1]]
    .f <- eval(bquote(function(...) {
      .(expr)
    }))
  }
  eval(lapply(.x, FUN = .f, ...))
}

inner_function <- function(x) { x + 1 }

outer_function <- function(x) {
  map(1:2, ~ inner_function(.x))
}

y_iv <- outer_function(1L)
str(y_iv)


for (cores in 1:availCores) {
  ## Speed up CRAN checks: Skip on CRAN Windows 32-bit
  if (!fullTest && isWin32) next
  
  message(sprintf("Testing with %d cores ...", cores))
  options(mc.cores = cores)

  message("availableCores(): ", availableCores())

  for (strategy in supportedStrategies(cores)) {
    message(sprintf("- plan('%s') ...", strategy))
    plan(strategy)

    message("- lm(<formula>) ...")
    
    ## Explicit future
    f <- future({ lm(weight ~ group - 1) })
    fit <- value(f)
    print(fit)
    stopifnot(all.equal(fit, fit_i))

    ## Explicit future (lazy)
    f <- future({ lm(weight ~ group - 1) }, lazy = TRUE)
    fit <- value(f)
    print(fit)
    stopifnot(all.equal(fit, fit_i))

    ## Future assignment
    fit %<-% { lm(weight ~ group - 1) }
    print(fit)
    stopifnot(all.equal(fit, fit_i))

    ## Future assignment (non-lazy)
    fit %<-% { lm(weight ~ group - 1) } %lazy% FALSE
    print(fit)
    stopifnot(all.equal(fit, fit_i))

    ## Future assignment (lazy)
    fit %<-% { lm(weight ~ group - 1) } %lazy% TRUE
    print(fit)
    stopifnot(all.equal(fit, fit_i))

    message("- Globals - one-side formulas, e.g. xtabs(~ x) ...")
    ## Explicit future
    f <- future({ xtabs(~ x) })
    tbl <- value(f)
    print(tbl)
    stopifnot(all.equal(tbl, tbl_ii))

    ## Future assignment
    tbl %<-% { xtabs(~ x) }
    print(tbl)
    stopifnot(all.equal(tbl, tbl_ii))

    message("- Globals - lm(<formula>, data = cars) ...")
    for (kk in seq_along(exprs)) {
      expr <- exprs[[kk]]
      name <- names(exprs)[kk]
      message(sprintf("- Globals - lm(<formula #%d (%s)>, data = cars) ...",
                      kk, sQuote(name)))
    
      fit_iii <- eval(expr)
      print(fit_iii)
    
      f <- future(expr, substitute = FALSE)
      fit <- value(f)
      print(fit)
    
      stopifnot(all.equal(fit, fit_iii))
    } ## for (kk ...)

    message("- Globals - map(x, ~ expr) ...")
    f <- future({ outer_function(1L) })
    y <- value(f)
    str(y)
    stopifnot(all.equal(y, y_iv))

    y %<-% { outer_function(1L) }
    str(y)
    stopifnot(all.equal(y, y_iv))
  } ## for (strategy ...)
  message(sprintf("Testing with %d cores ... DONE", cores))
} ## for (cores ...)

message("*** Globals - formulas ... DONE")

source("incl/end.R")