Storm is a distributed real-time computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing real-time computation. Storm includes a "Multi-Language" (or "Multilang") Protocol to allow implementation of Bolts and Spouts in languages other than Java. This R extension provides implementations of utility functions to allow an application developer to focus on application-specific functionality rather than Storm/R communications plumbing.