Provides fundamental abstractions for doing asynchronous programming in R using promises. Asynchronous programming is useful for allowing a single R process to orchestrate multiple tasks in the background while also attending to something else. Semantics are similar to 'JavaScript' promises, but with a syntax that is idiomatic R.
Maintainer: Barret Schloerke barret@posit.co (ORCID)
Authors:
Joe Cheng joe@posit.co
Winston Chang winston@posit.co (ORCID)
Charlie Gao charlie.gao@posit.co (ORCID)
Other contributors:
Posit Software, PBC (ROR) [copyright holder, funder]
Useful links: