Listen to @Blair09M from the RStudio Solutions Engineering team talk about Local Background Jobs, a new feature in RStudio 1.2
YouTube Screencast: https://youtu.be/GcqHJAj1IuY
James covers a new set of resources from solutions.rstudio.com which discuss local and remote background jobs - complete with practical examples.
Source code for the examples is available in the sol-eng/background-jobs repository on GitHub.