partools: Tools for the 'Parallel' Package

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.

Version:	1.1.7
Depends:	regtools, parallel, stats, utils, data.table, pdist, methods
Suggests:	rpart, e1071, testthat
Published:	2026-02-06
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.partools
Author:	Norm Matloff [cre, aut], Clark Fitzgerald [aut], Reed Davis [aut], Robin Yancey [aut], Shunxu Huang [aut], Alex Rumbaugh [aut], Hadley Wickham [aut]
Maintainer:	Norm Matloff <normmatloff at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/matloff/partools/issues
License:	GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL:	https://github.com/matloff/partools
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README
CRAN checks:	partools results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	partools.html , partools.pdf
Vignettes:	Partools (source)

Downloads:

Package source:	partools_1.1.7.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: partools_1.1.7.zip, r-release: partools_1.1.7.zip, r-oldrel: partools_1.1.7.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): partools_1.1.7.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): partools_1.1.7.tgz, r-release (x86_64): partools_1.1.7.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): partools_1.1.7.tgz
Old sources:	partools archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends:	cdparcoord
Reverse imports:	qeML
Reverse suggests:	regtools

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