later: Utilities for Scheduling Functions to Execute Later with EventLoops
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: | 1.4.4 |
| Imports: | Rcpp (≥ 0.12.9),rlang |
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp |
| Suggests: | knitr,nanonext,rmarkdown,testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: | 2025-08-27 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.later |
| Author: | Winston Chang [aut], Joe Cheng [aut], Charlie Gao [aut, cre], Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd], Marcus Geelnard [ctb, cph] (TinyCThread library, https://tinycthread.github.io/), Evan Nemerson [ctb, cph] (TinyCThread library, https://tinycthread.github.io/) |
| Maintainer: | Charlie Gao <charlie.gao at posit.co> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/r-lib/later/issues |
| License: | MIT + fileLICENSE |
| URL: | https://later.r-lib.org,https://github.com/r-lib/later |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| Materials: | README,NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | later results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | later.html ,later.pdf |
| Vignettes: | Using later from C++ (source) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | later_1.4.4.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel:later_1.4.4.zip, r-release:later_1.4.4.zip, r-oldrel:later_1.4.4.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64):later_1.4.4.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64):later_1.4.4.tgz, r-release (x86_64):later_1.4.4.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64):later_1.4.4.tgz |
| Old sources: | later archive |
Reverse dependencies:
| Reverse imports: | blogdown,chromote,crew,ellmer,fiery,httpuv,jobqueue,linkeR,maths.genealogy,OmnipathR,pagedown,plumbertableau,pool,promises,Prostar,quarto,retry,rtiddlywiki,sdstudio,shiny,shinylight,tall,watcher,webshot2,websocket |
| Reverse linking to: | httpuv,websocket |
| Reverse suggests: | chatLLM,coro,curl,dipsaus,firesale,firestorm,httr2,learnr,LLMTranslate,mapview,nanonext,PiC,plumber,plumber2,ravepipeline,routr,servr,shinychat,shinyOAuth |
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