richfitz/RedisHeartbeat: Heartbeat Support using 'Redis'

Simple heartbeat support for R using 'Redis'. A heartbeat is a background thread that acts as a dead-man's switch. It will create a key on Redis that will automatically expire after a number of seconds and then periodically refresh that key, even when the R process is busy. If the process dies for some reason, then the key will disappear. A heartbeat can be used to detect loss of worker processes on shared systems.

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("richfitz/RedisHeartbeat")