README.md

In richfitz/RedisHeartbeat: Heartbeat Support using 'Redis'

heartbeatr

If you run a long running calculation on a remote machine your calculation can fail if the machine falls over, the network goes down, or your code crashes R. This package provides a "heartbeat" service that uses Redis to periodically prevent a key from expiring, forming a dead man's switch. You can then monitor the key to detect failure in your process and re-queue/rerun/investigate as appropriate.

Usage

f <- function() {
  h <- heartbeatr::heartbeat("mykey", 4)
  # ... long running job here
  # h$stop() # optional - will stop automatically once h is garbage collected
}

Installation

drat:::add("mrc-ide")
install.packges("heartbeatr")

It is also possible to install directly from GitHub using remotes as

remotes::install_github("mrc-ide/heartbeatr", ugprade = FALSE)

License

MIT + file LICENSE © Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

richfitz/RedisHeartbeat documentation built on April 17, 2021, 8:51 p.m.