Integrate rstudio job launcher with the future package

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r

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No repository file or test is named. Start by reviewing the package's existing RStudio API entry points and the future package's plan interface, then determine how RStudio Workbench Pro job-launcher submissions should map to future workers. Done means a usable plan_rstudio_launcher that supports the described parallel jobs and works with targets::tar_make_future.

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Description

enhancement

RStudio Workbench Pro has a great job launcher feature which lets the user submit jobs to distributed computing clusters, but it's hard to integrate this system with R packages which are built around the futureverse family of parallel computing resources like targets.

It would be great if there were a plan_rstudio_launcher which let users kick off parallel jobs on their launcher setup. The advantage of this is that it would unlock a bunch of HPC functionality for users (For example targets::tar_make_future would allow you to build a modelling pipeline with a bunch of job launcher calls). I don't think the developers of future have access to a testing environment for this feature so I think it's probably better to have it in this package.

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