Package: future
Version: 1.2.0
Title: A Future API for R
Imports: digest, globals (>= 0.7.1), listenv (>= 0.6.0), parallel,
        utils
Suggests: R.rsp, markdown
VignetteBuilder: R.rsp
Authors@R: c(person("Henrik", "Bengtsson", role=c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
                                          email = "henrikb@braju.com"))
Description: A Future API for R is provided. In programming, a future is an
    abstraction for a value that may be available at some point in the future.
    The state of a future can either be unresolved or resolved. As soon as it
    is resolved, the value is available. Futures are useful constructs in for
    instance concurrent evaluation, e.g. parallel processing and distributed
    processing on compute clusters. The purpose of this package is to provide
    a lightweight interface for using futures in R. Functions 'future()' and
    'value()' exist for creating futures and requesting their values, e.g.
    'f <- future({ mandelbrot(-0.75, 0, side=3) })' and 'v <- value(f)'. The
    'resolved()' function can be used to check if a future is resolved or
    not. An infix assignment operator '%<-%' exists for creating futures whose
    values are accessible by the assigned variables (as promises), e.g. 'v %<-%
    { mandelbrot(-0.75, 0, side=3) }'. This package implements synchronous "lazy"
    and "eager" futures, and asynchronous "multicore", "multisession" and ad hoc
    "cluster" futures. Globals variables and functions are automatically identified
    and exported. Required packages are attached in external R sessions whenever
    needed. All types of futures are designed to behave the same such that the
    exact same code work regardless of futures used or number of cores, background
    sessions or cluster nodes available. Additional types of futures are provided by
    other packages enhancing this package.
License: LGPL (>= 2.1)
LazyLoad: TRUE
URL: https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/future
BugReports: https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/future/issues
RoxygenNote: 5.0.1
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2016-11-12 10:38:34 UTC; hb
Author: Henrik Bengtsson [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Henrik Bengtsson <henrikb@braju.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2016-11-12 14:02:40
