Source: r-cran-promises Maintainer: Debian R Packages Maintainers Uploaders: Andreas Tille Section: gnu-r Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-r Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-r, r-base-dev, r-cran-r6, r-cran-rcpp, r-cran-later, r-cran-rlang, r-cran-magrittr Standards-Version: 4.6.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-promises Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-promises.git Homepage: https://cran.r-project.org/package=promises Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: r-cran-promises Architecture: any Depends: ${R:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Recommends: ${R:Recommends} Suggests: ${R:Suggests} Description: GNU R 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.