doRedis | R/foreach Redis backend for parallel computing | Architecture library

doRedis is a R library typically used in Architecture applications. doRedis has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Steve Weston's foreach package is a remarkable parametric evaluation device for the R language. Similarly to lapply-like functions, foreach maps and parameter values expressions to data and aggregates results. Even better, foreach lets you do this in parallel across multiple CPU cores and computers. And even better yet, foreach abstracts the parallel computing details away into modular back-end code. Code written using foreach works sequentially in the absence of a parallel back-end, and works uniformly across a variety of back ends. Think of foreach as the lingua Franca of parallel computing for R. Redis is a powerful, fast networked database with many innovative features, among them a blocking stack-like data structure (Redis "lists"). This feature makes Redis useful as a lightweight backend for parallel computing. The doRedis package relies on the redux package for communication with a Redis server to define a lightweight parallel backend for foreach using Redis that is elastic and platform-independent.