The future package celebrates ten years on CRAN as of June 19, 2025. I just posted the second in a series of blog posts highlighting recent improvements to the #futureverse ecosystem:

* Setting Future Plans in R Functions - and Why You Probably Shouldn't

available at https://www.jottr.org/2025/06/25/with-plan/

You can now do:

my_fcn <- function(...) {
with(plan(multisession), local = TRUE)
...
}

but, as explained in the post, I recommend not doing any that, unless really needed

JottR · Jun 25Setting Future Plans in R Functions — and Why You Probably Shouldn'tThe future package celebrates ten years on CRAN as of June 19, 2025. This is the second in a series of blog posts highlighting recent improvements to the futureverse ecosystem. TL;DR You can now use my_fcn <- function(...) { with(plan(multisession), local = TRUE) ... } to temporarily set a future backend for use in your function. This guarantees that any changes are undone when the function exits, even if there is an error or an interrupt.

#RStats #parallel

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**Henrik Bengtsson** @henrikbengtsson@mastodon.social · Jun 23

Jun 23

Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson@mastodon.social

The future package celebrates ten years on CRAN as of June 19, 2025. I just posted the first of a series of blog posts highlighting recent improvements to the #futureverse ecosystem:

* Future got better at finding global variables

available at https://www.jottr.org/2025/06/23/future-got-better-at-finding-global-variables/

JottR · Jun 23Future got better at finding global variablesThe future package celebrates ten years on CRAN as of June 19, 2025. This is the first of a series of blog posts highlighting recent improvements to the futureverse ecosystem. The globals package is part of the futureverse and has had two recent releases on 2025-04-15 and 2025-05-08. These updates address a few corner cases that would otherwise lead to unexpected errors. They also resulted in several long, outstanding issues reported on the future, future.

#RStats #parallel

**stgreenie** @stgreenie@universeodon.com · Jun 20

Jun 20

stgreenie @stgreenie@universeodon.com

Here in the fourth dimension
of galactic existence
we be #parallel Universe tripping

Atomic overlay

Antimatter souffle

Reverse Earth
in the invisible
continuum mirror

The trip ends too soon
as they always seem to do
and now we find ourselves
lost in far out nowhere

#vss365 #poetry #poem

**Trevor F. Coelho** @TrevorCoelho@mastodon.social · Jun 20

Jun 20

Trevor F. Coelho @TrevorCoelho@mastodon.social

#vss365
Walking the line between good and bad, day and night, life and death, the #parallel was too much some days.
Facing it one case at a time made it easier.
But to live by the sword, meant that to die by it too was an option.

Draw your Cold Iron too, at, trevorfcoelho.com

A city is mirrored on both sides of the image, blood splattered up the sides behind the towering buildings and bridges, and in the middle a man in a long coat walks away into the image, holding a longsword in his right hand.

**stgreenie** @stgreenie@universeodon.com · Jun 20

Jun 20

stgreenie @stgreenie@universeodon.com

Driving down Dizzy Street
I took a turn for the worse

Navigated right off the damn map
to a far out place I could not comprehend

The road sign was spinning rapidly
making the blur of words
impossible to read

So I started rotating myself
with equal velocity
for some much needed
#parallel perspective

Only then could I understand
the meaning
of the formerly
muddled message

“WELCOME TO DISORIENTED”

Now I knew exactly
where I was
and more importantly
how to navigate back
to the place
from whence I came

All I had to do to rectify
my untenable situation
was to apply
the physics of perspective
and angular velocity
to achieve the desired
perceptual stabilizing effect

Or I could just keep drinking
til I pass out

GIF

#vss365 #poetry #poem

**Henrik Bengtsson** @henrikbengtsson@mastodon.social · Jun 19

Jun 19

Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson@mastodon.social

The future package turns ten today To celebrate, I’ll start a blog series covering recent improvements that set us up for new, exciting ways for writing concurrent #RStats - neater than what our trusty workhorses future.apply & furrr offer

https://www.jottr.org/2025/06/19/futureverse-10-years/

#parallel #futureverse

**mage_of_dragons** @mage_of_dragons@mastodon.social · Jun 17 *

Jun 17 *

mage_of_dragons @mage_of_dragons@mastodon.social

Concurrency Concept: Say you have two threads trying to access the same bytes.
Instead of a lock, both threads can reserve a specific time interval, in which they are allowed to access the memory area. So the access timeline would look something like this (t1 and t2 being the timeframe's the respective threads can access it): t1 | t2 | t1 | t2 | ...

#programming #concurrency #parallel