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.
| Version: | 3.8.6 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.4.0) |
| Imports: | ps (≥ 1.2.0),R6, utils |
| Suggests: | callr (≥ 3.7.3),cli (≥ 3.3.0),codetools,covr,curl,debugme, parallel,rlang (≥ 1.0.2),testthat (≥ 3.0.0),webfakes,withr |
| Published: | 2025-02-21 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.processx |
| Author: | Gábor Csárdi [aut, cre, cph], Winston Chang [aut], Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd], Ascent Digital Services [cph, fnd] |
| Maintainer: | Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/r-lib/processx/issues |
| License: | MIT + fileLICENSE |
| Copyright: | see fileCOPYRIGHTS |
| URL: | https://processx.r-lib.org,https://github.com/r-lib/processx |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| Materials: | README,NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | processx results |