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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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install.packages('partools')

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438

Version

1.1.7

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GPL (>= 2)

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Maintainer

Norm Matloff

Last Published

February 6th, 2026

Functions in partools (1.1.7)

snowdoop,filechunkname, etc...

Snowdoop.
formrowchunks,addlists,matrixtolist,setclsinfo,getpte,distribsplit,distribcat,distribagg,distribrange,distribcounts,distribgetrows,docmd,doclscmd,geteltis,distribmeans,distribisdt,ipstrcat,dwhich.min,dwhich.max

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Debugging aid for parallel cluster code.
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Partools Apps
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