promises: Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming

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.

See also

Useful links:

• https://rstudio.github.io/promises/

• https://github.com/rstudio/promises

• Report bugs at https://github.com/rstudio/promises/issues

Author

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]