mirai: Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R

Designed for simplicity, a 'mirai' evaluates an R expression asynchronously in a parallel process, locally or distributed over the network. Modern networking and concurrency, built on 'nanonext' and 'NNG' (Nanomsg Next Gen), ensures reliable and efficient scheduling over fast inter-process communications or TCP/IP secured by TLS. Distributed computing can launch remote resources via SSH or cluster managers. A queued architecture readily handles more tasks than available processes, requiring no storage on the file system. Innovative features include event-driven promises, asynchronous parallel map, and automatic serialization of otherwise non-exportable reference objects.

Version:	2.3.0
Depends:	R (≥ 3.6)
Imports:	nanonext (≥ 1.6.0)
Suggests:	cli, litedown
Enhances:	parallel, promises
Published:	2025-05-22
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.mirai
Author:	Charlie Gao [aut, cre], Joe Cheng [ctb], Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd], Hibiki AI Limited [cph]
Maintainer:	Charlie Gao <charlie.gao at posit.co>
BugReports:	https://github.com/r-lib/mirai/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://mirai.r-lib.org, https://github.com/r-lib/mirai
NeedsCompilation:	no
Citation:	mirai citation info
Materials:	README NEWS
In views:	HighPerformanceComputing
CRAN checks:	mirai results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	mirai.pdf
Vignettes:	mirai - Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R (source) 1. Daemons (source) 2. Async Parallel Map (source) 3. Promises - Shiny and Plumber (source) 4. Serialization - Arrow, ADBC, polars, torch (source) 5. Mirai Clusters - Base R (source) 6. Guidance for Package Authors (source) 7. Community FAQs (source)

Downloads:

Package source:	mirai_2.3.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: mirai_2.3.0.zip, r-release: mirai_2.3.0.zip, r-oldrel: mirai_2.3.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): mirai_2.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): mirai_2.3.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): mirai_2.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): mirai_2.3.0.tgz
Old sources:	mirai archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports:	crew, future.mirai, GeomArchetypal, ichimoku, rush
Reverse suggests:	logger, mlr3misc, shinyscholar, teal

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