In this video from the European R Users Meeting, Henrik Bengtsson from the University of California San Francisco presents: A Future for R: Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone. “The future package is a powerful and elegant cross-platform framework for orchestrating asynchronous computations in R. It’s ideal for working with computations that take a long time to complete; that would benefit from using distributed, parallel frameworks to make them complete faster; and that you’d rather not have locking up your interactive R session.”