NEWS

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pbapply 1.7-4 (2025-07-20)

• Fixed initial message issue with Shiny (#69).
• Fix: pbreplicate was not passing future related arguments (#71).

pbapply 1.7-2 (2023-06-27)

• Documented .pb_env environment to address WARNING after CRAN submission.

pbapply 1.7-1

• Future backend not working on Windows (#63), implemented fix similar to PR #64.

pbapply 1.7-0 (2023-01-13)

• New functions: pbeapply, pbvapply, pbby, pbMap (#50, #51, #52, #53).
• Added support for future backends (#54), and the future and future.apply packages are now Suggested.
• Henrik Bengtsson (@HenrikBengtsson) and R Core Team added as contributors.
• NEWS.md file is not excluded from package tarball (#58).
• pbapply performance issue (#62) addressed.
• License for the package is now GPL (>=2) (#61).

pbapply 1.6-0 (2022-11-16)

• New function pbwalk that can be called for side-effects (#48).

pbapply 1.5-0 (2021-09-16)

• New progress bar type "shiny" to show the progress bar in the Shiny UI.
• Following R changes to apply, fixing dimnames issue (#44).

pbapply 1.4-3 (2020-08-18)

• Following R 3.6.2 changes to apply (#41).
• Adding pbtapply (#21).

pbapply 1.4-2 (2019-08-31)

• Fixed environment issue inside the tracer in pbmapply in non-interactive session (issue #39). This came up in a package suggesting pbapply, reported by @Nowosad.

pbapply 1.4-1 (2019-07-15)

• Use base::strrep instead of paste(rep(), collapse='') in timerProgressBar.
• Fixed space printing glitch (due to rounding), causing issue #37.

pbapply 1.4-0 (2019-02-05)

• pblapply returns empty list for empty vector consistent with lapply behavior (#33 by @kendonB); tests also added.
• pbmapply function added (#29) without parallel option.

pbapply 1.3-4 (2018-01-10)

• New function pbtypes() to print available pb types depending on OS.
• getTimeAsString is now exported, with description and examples.
• New pboption use_lb to switch on load balancing for parallel clusters, FALSE by default (feature request #28).

pbapply 1.3-3 (2017-07-04)

• Bar did not show up at start. This could happen if it was waiting to calculate total time to compare it to min_time option. Bar is shown right away if min_time=0 (issue #18).
• pbapply gained cl argument to be consistent with other parallelized functions with progress bar (issue #24).

pbapply 1.3-2 (2017-03-01)

• timerProgressBar makes sure char argument is not empty ("" is replaced by the default "=").
• Progress bar is only shown when interactive() && is.null(getOption("knitr.in.progress")) to avoid printing progress bar during interactive knitr rendering (request #15 from Sergio Oller).
• Bugfix: functions failed with single cluster cl argument (issue #17).

pbapply 1.3-1 (2016-10-31)

• timerProgressBar gained 2 new styles with flexible styling including left/right end and elapsed/remaining components of the progress bar.
• timerProgressBar gained min_time argument for minimum processing time (in seconds) that is required to show a progress bar. The global min_time can be set via pboptions.

pbapply 1.3-0 (2016-09-26)

• Progress bar is added for parallel (cluster and forking) jobs (request #9 from Kendon Bell). Package parallel is now imported as a result.
• timerProgressBar prints days when job is expected to be >24h (PR #11 from Phil Chalmers).

pbapply 1.2-2 (2016-08-26)

• Stylistic changes in printed messages.
• Default pb type is 'none' when !interactive().

pbapply 1.2-1 (2016-04-19)

• Double tilde ~ in timerProgressBar cleaned up (~~calculating).
• timerProgressBar gained 4 styles as documented on the help page. Showing elapsed and remaining time, throbber and bar formats.

pbapply 1.2-0 (2016-03-01)

• New function: timerProgressBar written by Zygmunt Zawadzki.
• Zygmunt added as package author.

pbapply 1.1-3 (2015-11-24)

• R (>= 3.2.0) dependency added because check failed on R-oldrelease (R-3.1.3) with error 'could not find function "forceAndCall"' that was part of the apply function source code. Reported by Uwe Ligges.

pbapply 1.1-2 (2015-11-22)

• Using on.exit and invisible(NULL) in examples.
• pblapply did not return NULL values, reported by J. Barrett, now fixed.
• pblapply did not return list names, now fixed.
• pbapply, pbsapply, pbreplicate: code follows base original.
• Examples updated to follow base R examples.
• Rd file updated to to match code changes.

pbapply 1.1-1 (2014-05-16)

• pblapply did not pass ... when not in interactive mode. Bug reported by R. D. Morey (U Groningen).

pbapply 1.1-0 (2013-10-03)

• Removed ::: to satisfy R 3.0.2 checks.

pbapply 1.0-5 (2012-07-07)

• inst/COPYING removed.
• .Internal call removed from pblapply.

pbapply 1.0-4 (2011-10-24)

• .onLoad added to zzz.R
• Help files a bit reworked.

pbapply 1.0-3 (2011-02-09)

• pboptions.Rd modified: pb type values added.

pbapply 1.0-2 (2010-09-10)

• pboptions function reworked.
• Functions simplified.

pbapply 1.0-1 (2010-09-03)

• pbreplicate added.
• /tests directory created.
• R CMD check failed on unix systems: /man and /R directories reworked.

pbapply 1.0-0

• First release.