Utilities for Scheduling Functions to Execute Later with Event Loops R package later version 1.4.8 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. Software Depends: R (>= 3.5) Imports: Rcpp (>= 1.0.10), rlang LinkingTo: Rcpp Suggests: knitr, nanonext, promises, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0) Charlie Gao <charlie.gao@posit.co> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) 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/) MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=later/LICENSE) 2026-03-05 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=later doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.later