doAzureParallel package support seems to be removed from MS site starting June 2023 - Is there any replacement for this we can look into?

Question

Hi,

We have a model in R/RStudio, and we have been using the doAzureParallel R package to execute Azure cloud computing task for our model. We realized that starting this June the package is no longer supported, and we run into issues when trying to install packages to the cluster. I was not able to debug fully because of access issues, but the support contact told us that the library path on MS site changed from mran to posit, which made the old package download URL obsolete.

With the support contact not being able to provide further help on this, could you please kindly help me with the following questions?

1. Based on your knowledge, is doAzureParallel no longer working or it could still work after some tweaks, in the short term?
2. Is there any alternative solution to doAzureParallel r package we can look into? Appreciate if you can share some insights/news on this.

Thanks,

David

Answer 1

@David Wu - Welcome to Microsoft Q&A and thanks for reaching out to us.

For your queries above,

1. doAzureParallel is no longer supported and no new features will be added anymore.
2. RStudio is a data science IDE and they are working on a ML model.  "https://github.com/Azure/doAzureParallel"

Hope this helps. and please feel free to reach out if you have any further questions.

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