Type: Package
Package: later
Title: Utilities for Scheduling Functions to Execute Later with Event
        Loops
Version: 1.4.8.9000
Authors@R: c(
    person("Winston", "Chang", , "winston@posit.co", role = "aut",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-1576-2126")),
    person("Joe", "Cheng", , "joe@posit.co", role = "aut"),
    person("Charlie", "Gao", , "charlie.gao@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-0750-061X")),
    person("Posit Software, PBC", role = c("cph", "fnd"),
           comment = c(ROR = "03wc8by49")),
    person("Marcus", "Geelnard", role = c("ctb", "cph"),
           comment = "TinyCThread library, https://tinycthread.github.io/"),
    person("Evan", "Nemerson", role = c("ctb", "cph"),
           comment = "TinyCThread library, https://tinycthread.github.io/")
  )
Description: 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.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://later.r-lib.org, https://github.com/r-lib/later
BugReports: https://github.com/r-lib/later/issues
Depends: R (>= 3.5)
Imports: Rcpp (>= 1.0.10), rlang
Suggests: knitr, nanonext, promises, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
LinkingTo: Rcpp
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/build/compilation-database: true
Config/Needs/website: tidyverse/tidytemplate
Config/roxygen2/markdown: TRUE
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.1.0
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Config/usethis/last-upkeep: 2025-07-18
Encoding: UTF-8
Repository: https://r-lib.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-08-07 16:24:50 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/r-lib/later
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: f1d988deb5e9fd26b3af5adee6da454ae7386f9d
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-10-06 11:04:28 UTC; root
Author: Winston Chang [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-2126>),
  Joe Cheng [aut],
  Charlie Gao [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0750-061X>),
  Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd] (ROR: <https://ror.org/03wc8by49>),
  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@posit.co>