mlr-org/batchtools

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Tools for computation on batch systems

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Forks: 53
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 88
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Merged PRs (30d): 1

Dominant language: R
License: LGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Nov 26, 2025
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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86 open issues indexed

CRAN Taskview: Update needed Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

mlr-org/batchtools#321 · Opened Oct 21, 2025
ROBUSTNESS: Write RDS files atomically Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

mlr-org/batchtools#317 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 17, 2025
Parent job in slurm exits before child jobs | nested slurm jobs Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mlr-org/batchtools#315 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 15, 2025
vignette link in readme is a dead link now Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

mlr-org/batchtools#305 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 13, 2025
`loadRegistry` assigns exported objects into the global namespace Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

mlr-org/batchtools#304 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 2, 2024
Retry slurm-commands on error Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mlr-org/batchtools#303 · Opened Oct 8, 2024
Option to drop into 'recover' when running testJob throws an error Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mlr-org/batchtools#302 · Opened Aug 21, 2024
Old version of Slurm, "invalid job state specified: SI" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

mlr-org/batchtools#300 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 15, 2024
Creating jobs without package dependencies installed on head node Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

mlr-org/batchtools#298 · Opened Dec 18, 2023
Slurm resource named `clusters` in docs, and `cluster` in `getClusters` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mlr-org/batchtools#297 · Opened Oct 17, 2023
calling `batchMap` + `submitJob` in a loop triggers "Registry must be empty" error Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

mlr-org/batchtools#295 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 26, 2023
squeue cmd not found when running R targets on singularity docker image Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mlr-org/batchtools#294 · 1 comment · Opened May 16, 2023
Effectively use batchtools for Targets-based workflow in SLURM Open

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mlr-org/batchtools#292 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 25, 2023
Question: How are template files interpretted? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

mlr-org/batchtools#291 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 25, 2023
Error in (function () : unused argument (x = 3) Open

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mlr-org/batchtools#290 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 14, 2023
Make 'options(error = function(e) traceback(2))` optional in testJob Open

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mlr-org/batchtools#289 · Opened Sep 27, 2022
Edit the job template without clearing the entire registry Open

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mlr-org/batchtools#288 · Opened Sep 23, 2022
Yet another `BatchtoolsExpiration: Future ('<none>') expired` error Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

mlr-org/batchtools#285 · Opened Apr 1, 2022
makeClusterFunctions store.job.collection flag documentation Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

mlr-org/batchtools#284 · Opened Jan 30, 2022
ability to suppress warning on failure to source `source` when calling makeRegistry Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

mlr-org/batchtools#281 · Opened Oct 7, 2021
Job requeue on Slurm - 'no such file or directory' & workaround Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

mlr-org/batchtools#280 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 24, 2021
scoping errors depending on objects in global environment Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mlr-org/batchtools#275 · Opened Jun 15, 2021
Error in readLog() on Slurm cluster Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mlr-org/batchtools#273 · 12 comments · Opened May 26, 2021
Execution order of jobs in the same chunk Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mlr-org/batchtools#272 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 9, 2021
[Question] Dynamically change number of concurrent jobs Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

mlr-org/batchtools#270 · Opened Jan 31, 2021
Custom job submission command with TORQUE/PBS Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

mlr-org/batchtools#269 · Opened Jan 16, 2021
segfault in batchExport Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

mlr-org/batchtools#266 · Opened Sep 29, 2020
btlapply submitting to only a small number of nodes in Slurm Open

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mlr-org/batchtools#265 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 28, 2020
runOSCommand throws error with R 4.0 (missing shQuote) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

mlr-org/batchtools#264 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 17, 2020
option to overwrite registry file Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mlr-org/batchtools#262 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 12, 2020
WISH: Clarify the 'Work dir does not exist' error message Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

mlr-org/batchtools#260 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2020
How to retrieve benchmark results from makeExperimentRegistry() Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

mlr-org/batchtools#249 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 10, 2019
Use the qs package for file transfers Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

mlr-org/batchtools#245 · 21 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2019
Trouble with LSF support Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

mlr-org/batchtools#244 · Opened Sep 10, 2019
clusterFunctionsSlurm.R returns incorrect "batch.id" Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

mlr-org/batchtools#243 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 7, 2019
Mutlicore does not work properly (Warning in selectChildren) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

mlr-org/batchtools#242 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 29, 2019
Too many jobs causes "BatchtoolsExpiration: Future ('<none>') expired" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mlr-org/batchtools#240 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2019
getLog() should not return an error if the log file is not available Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

mlr-org/batchtools#239 · Opened Aug 8, 2019
Change package name after fork Open

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mlr-org/batchtools#238 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 15, 2019
makeRegistry(NA) causes jobs to expire on Slurm cluster Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mlr-org/batchtools#237 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 6, 2019
Batchtools interacts poorly with packrat (probably renv also) Open

enhancement question

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mlr-org/batchtools#236 · Opened Jul 4, 2019
Recognise abuse behavior Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

mlr-org/batchtools#235 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2019
Socket parallelization + resizing the terminal window = crash Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

mlr-org/batchtools#233 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 19, 2019
Speedup reduceResultsDataTable with many (millions) of Jobs Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

mlr-org/batchtools#231 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 6, 2019
Specify username for Slurm Open

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mlr-org/batchtools#229 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 11, 2019
SUGGESTION: Robustify example template files Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mlr-org/batchtools#228 · Opened Mar 29, 2019
multicore collects children inappropriately Open

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mlr-org/batchtools#221 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2019
explicitly undo side effects of makeCluster Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

mlr-org/batchtools#220 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 9, 2019
Error message for successfully terminated jobs on LiDO3 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

mlr-org/batchtools#219 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 8, 2019
Implement sharding Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

mlr-org/batchtools#217 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 24, 2019

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