Table ReadParquet() {
  Future<Table> table = ScheduleReadParquetTask();
  // At this point we are going to block the main R thread.  We don't want to do that.  We want
  // to re-use the main R thread for I/O tasks.  We can't call later::run_now because are not R-aware here
  // and we don't want to pepper the C++ code base with something like MAYBE_YIELD_TO_R
  return table.result();
  // By the time we return it is too late to call later::run_now.  Any child tasks needed to read the parquet
  // file (e.g. reading from a connection) must have completed by now.
}

Future<Table> ReadParquet() {
  return ScheduleReadParquetTask();
  // At this point the work has started but not finished.  Once we return from this method we can
  // call later::run_now from an R context.
}