me@r0bert.dev Robert Greener 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. Joe Cheng joe@rstudio.com https://github.com/rstudio/promises/issues rstudio/promises