nanonext: Lightweight Toolkit for Messaging, Concurrency and the Web
R binding for NNG (Nanomsg Next Gen), a successor to ZeroMQ. A toolkit for messaging, concurrency and the web. High-performance socket messaging over in-process, IPC, TCP, WebSocket and secure TLS transports implements 'Scalability Protocols', a standard for common communications patterns including publish/subscribe, request/reply and survey. A threaded concurrency framework with intuitive 'aio' objects that resolve automatically upon completion of asynchronous operations, and synchronisation primitives that allow R to wait on events signalled by concurrent threads. A unified HTTP server hosting REST endpoints, WebSocket connections and streaming on a single port, with a built-in HTTP client.
| Version: | 1.8.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.6) |
| Suggests: | later, litedown |
| Enhances: | promises |
| Published: | 2026-02-09 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.nanonext |
| Author: | Charlie Gao  [aut,
cre],
Posit Software, PBC  [cph,
fnd],
Hibiki AI Limited [cph],
R Consortium [fnd] |
| Maintainer: | Charlie Gao <charlie.gao at posit.co> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/r-lib/nanonext/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://nanonext.r-lib.org, https://github.com/r-lib/nanonext |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| SystemRequirements: | 'libnng' >= 1.9 and 'libmbedtls' >= 2.5, or 'cmake' to compile NNG and/or Mbed TLS included in package sources |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| In views: | HighPerformanceComputing, WebTechnologies |
| CRAN checks: | nanonext results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | nanonext.html , nanonext.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
nanonext - Quick Reference (source) nanonext - Messaging and Async I/O (source) nanonext - Scalability Protocols (source) nanonext - Configuration and Security (source) nanonext - Web Toolkit (source) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | nanonext_1.8.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: nanonext_1.8.0.zip, r-release: nanonext_1.8.0.zip, r-oldrel: nanonext_1.8.0.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): nanonext_1.8.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): nanonext_1.8.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): nanonext_1.8.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): nanonext_1.8.0.tgz |
| Old sources: | nanonext archive |
Reverse dependencies:
| Reverse imports: | crew, crew.cluster, mcptools, mirai |
| Reverse suggests: | httr2, later, targets |
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