Steps to making C code thread-safe.

Why do we need threads?

A short (currently non-existent) outline of why we need to add support for threads in the internals of R and also potentially at the user level.

Documentation for S-level functions for threads

These are the help pages for the different functions defining the S4 thread interface.

Design of the S threads

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Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@research.bell-labs.com>

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