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processx: Execute and Control System Processes

Description

Tools to run system processes in the background. It can check if a background process is running; wait on a background process to finish; get the exit status of finished processes; kill background processes. It can read the standard output and error of the processes, using non-blocking connections. 'processx' can poll a process for standard output or error, with a timeout. It can also poll several processes at once.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Gábor Csárdi [e-mail] (ORCID) [copyright holder]

Authors:

• Winston Chang

Other contributors:

• Posit Software, PBC [copyright holder, funder]

• Ascent Digital Services [copyright holder, funder]

See Also

Useful links:

• https://processx.r-lib.org

• https://github.com/r-lib/processx

• Report bugs at https://github.com/r-lib/processx/issues

processx documentation built on May 29, 2024, 5:53 a.m.