later: Utilities for Scheduling Functions to Execute Later with Event Loops

Executes arbitrary R or C functions some time after the current time, after the R execution stack has emptied. The functions are scheduled in an event loop.

Version: 1.4.1
Imports: Rcpp (≥ 0.12.9), rlang
LinkingTo: Rcpp
Suggests: knitr, nanonext, R6, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 2.1.0)
Published: 2024-11-27
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.later
Author: Winston Chang [aut, cre], Joe Cheng [aut], Charlie Gao ORCID iD [aut], Posit Software, PBC [cph], Marcus Geelnard [ctb, cph] (TinyCThread library, https://tinycthread.github.io/), Evan Nemerson [ctb, cph] (TinyCThread library, https://tinycthread.github.io/)
Maintainer: Winston Chang <winston at posit.co>
BugReports: https://github.com/r-lib/later/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://r-lib.github.io/later/, https://github.com/r-lib/later
NeedsCompilation: yes
Materials: README NEWS
CRAN checks: later results

Documentation:

Reference manual: later.pdf
Vignettes: Using later from C++ (source)

Downloads:

Package source: later_1.4.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: later_1.4.1.zip, r-release: later_1.4.1.zip, r-oldrel: later_1.4.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): later_1.4.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): later_1.4.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): later_1.4.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): later_1.4.1.tgz
Old sources: later archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: blogdown, chromote, crew, fiery, httpuv, OmnipathR, pagedown, plumbertableau, pool, promises, Prostar, quarto, retry, shiny, shinylight, webshot2, websocket
Reverse linking to: httpuv, promises, websocket
Reverse suggests: coro, curl, dipsaus, httr2, learnr, mapview, nanonext, plumber, servr

Linking:

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