useR! 2024

In this talk, I am proudly presenting the 'future.mirai' package - a parallel backend for the Futureverse that use the 'mirai' framework for parallelization. The 'mirai' package implements a distributed computing environment for R, where R expressions can be resolved on local and remote machines using novel techniques. It was introduced in 2022 and has since gained additional exciting features, e.g. secure communication with parallel workers. The 'future.mirai' package makes 'mirai' readily available to all users and developers already using Futureverse for parallelization. By design, all existing Futureverse code will work out of the box without having to change any code. I will give a brief overview of 'mirai' and 'future' - the core of Futureverse - before introducing 'future.mirai' and present how well the two frameworks work together. In this presentation, you will learn how simple it is to run R in parallel using Futureverse with a focus on 'mirai'.