# futureverse/future

:rocket: R package: future: Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone

Repository: https://github.com/futureverse/future
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/future
Homepage: https://future.futureverse.org
Language: R
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: r, cran, parallel-processing, parallel-computing, distributed-computing, hpc-clusters, hpc, promises, futures, asynchronous, programming, parallelization
Last push: 2026-09-02T23:24:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 100, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4105, "days_push": 0, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1015, forks 92 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:12.194678+00:00)

## What it is
The future R package provides a unified, simple API for evaluating R expressions asynchronously and in parallel across local, cluster, and cloud resources. It is the core of the Futureverse ecosystem, enabling parallelization of existing R code with minimal changes.

## Use cases
- parallelize existing R code with minimal changes
- run R expressions asynchronously on a compute cluster
- speed up lapply or purrr map calls in R
- distribute R computations across HPC cluster nodes
- run foreach loops in parallel in R

## When to choose
- you write R and want easy, cross-platform parallel or distributed processing
- you want a uniform API that works locally, on clusters, or in the cloud
- you want to parallelize apply/map/foreach code with minimal edits

## When to avoid
- you need parallelism in a language other than R
- you need low-level control over thread scheduling or GPU kernels

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: concurrency, developer-tools
- domain: data-science, developer-tools, programming-languages
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: r-package, parallel-computing, futures, asynchronous, hpc, cran, r

## Member repositories
- futureverse/future (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:12.194678+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:11:26.149472+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/futureverse/future (fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:12.194678+00:00, sha 09340e4c0a9f)
  - homepage: https://future.futureverse.org (fetched 2026-08-29T13:10:36.629997+00:00, sha d8ea464e6f2b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.