On 06/11/2020 4:47 p.m., Balamuta, James Joseph wrote:
Hi all,
Henrik Bengtsson has done some fantastic work with {future} and, more
importantly, greatly improved constructing and deconstructing a parallelized
environment within R. It was with great joy that I saw Henrik slowly split off
some functionality of {future} into {parallelly} package. Reading over the
package’s README, he states:
The functions and features added to this package are written to be backward
compatible with the parallel package, such that they may be incorporated there
later.
The parallelly package comes with an open invitation for the R Core Team to
adopt all or parts of its code into the parallel package.
https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/parallelly
I’m wondering what the appropriate process would be to slowly merge some
functions from {parallelly} into the base R {parallel} package. Should this be
done with targeted issues on Bugzilla for different fields Henrik has
identified? Or would an omnibus patch bringing in all suggested modifications
be preferred? Or is it best to discuss via the list-serv appropriate
contributions?
One way is to convince R Core that incorporating this into the parallel
package would
- make less work for them, or
- add a lot to R that couldn't happen if it was a contributed package.
The fact that it's good isn't a good reason to put it into a base
package, which would largely mean transferring Henrik's workload to R
Core. There are lots of good packages, and their maintainers should
continue to maintain them.
Duncan Murdoch
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