future

future.R

> f <- future({
+   a <- 7
+   b <- 3
+   c <- 2
+   a * b * c
+ })
> as.list(f)
$local
[1] TRUE

$owner
[1] "d24f64a5-dd8e-2c3f-7613-61cf1f1c66f5"
attr(,"info")
attr(,"info")$host
<NA> 
  NA 

attr(,"info")$info
                                      sysname                                       release 
                                      "Linux"                            "3.2.0-39-virtual" 
                                      version                                      nodename 
"#62-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 28 00:48:27 UTC 2013"                              "ip-10-0-29-230" 
                                      machine                                         login 
                                     "x86_64"                                     "unknown" 
                                         user                                effective_user 
                                      "kyleb"                                       "kyleb" 

attr(,"info")$pid
[1] 24083

attr(,"info")$time
[1] "2016-08-15 19:38:57 UTC"

attr(,"info")$random
[1] 174784500


$envir
<environment: R_GlobalEnv>

$workers
[1] 8

$gc
[1] FALSE

$job
$pid
[1] 24462

$fd
[1] 16 25

attr(,"class")
[1] "parallelJob"  "childProcess" "process"     

$expr
{
    a <- 7
    b <- 3
    c <- 2
    a * b * c
}

$earlySignal
[1] FALSE

$state
[1] "running"

I'm not sure what that "Globals" thing is.

> f
MulticoreFuture:
Expression:
{
    a <- 7
    b <- 3
    c <- 2
    a * b * c
}
Local evaluation: TRUE
Environment: <environment: R_GlobalEnv>
Globals: <none>
Resolved: TRUE
Value: <not collected>
Early signalling: FALSE
Owner process: d24f64a5-dd8e-2c3f-7613-61cf1f1c66f5
Class: ‘MulticoreFuture’, ‘MultiprocessFuture’, ‘Future’, ‘environment’