Asynchronous programming in R

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Explains how the later package provides an event loop with a C API and thread‑safe scheduling so many async tasks run inside one R process. Demos: a polling plot watcher (runs every 0.25s), a websocket reversing server demo, an httpuv web server, a remote REPL over websockets, and a headless Chrome screenshotter via chromote — all working live. Notes threaded I/O reduces polling latency and later does not solve tail‑call stack growth.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:24Asynchronous programming
3. 3:57Later
4. 6:35C API
5. 7:15Websocket
6. 11:55Web server
7. 17:30Questions

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