partools

Authors Norm Matloff, Hadley Wickham, Clark Fitzgerald, Reed Davis, Robin Yancey, Shunxu Huang, Alex Rumbaugh

Last update 6 February 2026

Copyright license GNU General Public License, version 2.0, GNU General Public License, version 3.0

Software version identifier 1.1.6, PACKAGES.rds, 1.0.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.3, 1.1.5, 1.1.7

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

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

Description

Miscellaneous utilities for parallelizing large computations. Alternative to MapReduce. File splitting and distributed operations such as sort and aggregate. "Software Alchemy" method for parallelizing most statistical methods, presented in N. Matloff, Parallel Computation for Data Science, Chapman and Hall, 2015. Includes a debugging aid.

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