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Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming

v1.5.0 · Oct 31, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

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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.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies fastmap later lifecycle magrittr otel R6 rlang Certara.RsNLME.ModelExecutor DT FastRet PacketLLM TKCat TreeSearch chromote crew ellmer fiery gooseR httpuv jobqueue lavaangui learnr +36 more reverse deps promises

Version History

new 1.5.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.5.0 ← 1.4.0 diff Oct 31, 2025
updated 1.4.0 ← 1.3.3 diff Oct 21, 2025
updated 1.3.3 ← 1.3.2 diff May 28, 2025
updated 1.3.2 ← 1.3.1 diff Nov 27, 2024
updated 1.3.1 ← 1.3.0 diff Nov 25, 2024
updated 1.3.0 ← 1.2.1 diff Apr 4, 2024
updated 1.2.1 ← 1.2.0.1 diff Aug 9, 2023
updated 1.2.0.1 ← 1.1.1 diff Feb 10, 2021
updated 1.1.1 ← 1.1.0 diff Jun 8, 2020
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.1 diff Oct 4, 2019
new 1.0.1 Apr 12, 2018