progress_progressr: Use Progressr with Plyr Map-Reduce Functions
Description
A "progress bar" for plyr's .progress argument.
Usage
progress_progressr(...)
Value
A named base::list that can be passed as argument .progress
to any of plyr function accepting that argument.
Arguments
...
Not used.
Limitations
One can use use doFuture::registerDoFuture() to run plyr functions
in parallel, e.g. plyr::l_ply(..., .parallel = TRUE). Unfortunately,
using .parallel = TRUE disables progress updates because, internally,
plyr forces .progress = "none" whenever .parallel = TRUE.
Thus, despite the future ecosystem and progressr would support
it, it is not possible to run dplyr in parallel and get progress
updates at the same time.