RStudio 1.2 introduced the ability to send long-running R scripts to local and remote background jobs. This functionality can dramatically improve the productivity of data scientists and analysts using R since they can continue working in an unblocked R session in RStudio while jobs are running in the background. Local background jobs are supported by all versions of RStudio, server and desktop. Remote background jobs are a feature of RStudio Server Pro and are orchestrated by the RStudio Job Launcher, which also supports running interactive R sessions on remote resource managers like Kubernetes.