doFuture

Last update 5 October 2026

Software version identifier 1.0.0, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.6.0, 0.7.0, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.9.0, 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.12.0, 0.12.1, 0.12.2, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, PACKAGES.rds, 1.0.2, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3.0, 1.4.0

Official website https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doFuture/index.html

Source code repository https://github.com/cran/doFuture

Description

The 'future' package provides a unifying parallelization framework for R that supports many parallel and distributed backends <doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-048>. The 'foreach' package provides a powerful API for iterating over an R expression in parallel. The 'doFuture' package brings the best of the two together. There are three ways to use this package. The recommended approach is to use 'y <- foreach(...) %do% { ... } |> futurize()' via the 'futurize' package (<doi:10.48550/arXiv.2601.17578>). The second alternative, which was formerly recommended, is to use 'y <- foreach(...) %dofuture% { ... }', which does not require using 'registerDoFuture()' and has many advantages over '%dopar%'. The third alternative is the traditional 'foreach' approach by registering the 'foreach' adapter 'registerDoFuture()' and so that 'y <- foreach(...) %dopar% { ... }' parallelizes with the 'future' framework.

Cites work

A Unifying Framework for Parallel and Distributed Processing in R using Futures

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