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: Joe Cheng joe@posit.co
Other contributors:
Posit Software, PBC [copyright holder, funder]
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