starburst: Seamless AWS Cloud Bursting for Parallel R Workloads

A 'future' backend that enables seamless execution of parallel R workloads on 'Amazon Web Services' ('AWS', <https://aws.amazon.com>), including 'EC2' and 'Fargate'. 'staRburst' handles environment synchronization, data transfer, quota management, and worker orchestration automatically, allowing users to scale from local execution to 100+ cloud workers with a single line of code change.

Version: 0.3.8
Depends: R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports: future (≥ 1.33.0), globals, paws.compute, paws.storage, paws.management, paws.security.identity, qs2, uuid, renv, jsonlite, crayon, digest, base64enc, processx
Suggests: future.apply, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, withr, mockery
Published: 2026-03-19
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.starburst (may not be active yet)
Author: Scott Friedman [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Scott Friedman <help at starburst.ing>
BugReports: https://github.com/scttfrdmn/starburst/issues
License: Apache License 2.0
URL: https://starburst.ing, https://github.com/scttfrdmn/starburst
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: starburst results

Documentation:

Reference manual: starburst.html , starburst.pdf
Vignettes: Detached Session Mode (source, R code)
Example: Parallel Bulk API Calls (source, R code)
Example: Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for A/B Testing (source, R code)
Example: Parallel Feature Engineering (source, R code)
Example: Parallel Geospatial Analysis (source, R code)
Example: Parallel Grid Search for Hyperparameter Tuning (source, R code)
Example: Monte Carlo Portfolio Simulation (source, R code)
Example: Parallel Report Generation (source, R code)
Example: Parallel Portfolio Risk Modeling (source, R code)
Getting Started with staRburst (source, R code)
Security Best Practices for staRburst (source, R code)
Troubleshooting staRburst (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: starburst_0.3.8.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): starburst_0.3.8.tgz, r-release (x86_64): starburst_0.3.8.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): starburst_0.3.8.tgz

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