rstudio - is it possible to run a code in the background

Question

Question regarding RStudio. Suppose I am running a code in the console:

> code1()

assume that code1() prints nothing on the con

Answer 1

The future package (I'm the author) provides this:

library("future")
plan(multisession)

future(code1())
code2()

FYI, if you use

plan(cluster, workers = c("n1", "n3", "remote.server.org"))

then the future expression is resolved on one of those machines. Using

plan(future.BatchJobs::batchjobs_slurm)

will cause it to be resolved via a Slurm job scheduler queue.

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