The future package celebrates ten years on CRAN as of June 19, 2025. This is the first of a series of blog posts highlighting recent improvements to the futureverse ecosystem.
The globals package is part of the futureverse and has had two recent releases on 2025-04-15 and 2025-05-08. These updates address a few corner cases that would otherwise lead to unexpected errors. They also resulted in several long, outstanding issues reported on the future, future.
The future package turns ten on CRAN today – June 19, 2025. (Image credits: Dan LaBar for the future logo; Hadley Wickham and Greg Swinehart for the ggplot2 logo and balloon wall; The future balloon wall was inspired by ggplot2’s recent real-world version and generated with ChatGPT.) The future package turns ten years old today. I released version 0.6.0 to CRAN on June 19, 2015, just days before I presented the package and sharing my visions at useR!
