mirai is a minimalist R framework for async, parallel, and distributed evaluation, built on nanonext. Core Principle: Explicit Dependency Passing mirai evaluates expressions in a clean environment on a daemon process. Nothing from the calling environment is available unless passed explicitly — this is the #1 source of mistakes. There are two ways to pass objects, and the names used must match the names referenced in the expression. (recommended) Objects in populate the expression's local evaluation environment — available directly by name inside the expression. (dot-dot-dot) Objects passed vi…