installr (version 0.15.3)

get_pid: Find the pid of a process by name

Description

Returns a vector with the process ID (pid) for all processes with a particular name.

Usage

get_pid(process, exact = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

process

a character vector of process names.

exact

logical (FALSE). should we get exact match to process name, or can we use just partial matching.

...

not used.

Value

• an integer vector with the process ID (pid) of the processes.

References

tasklist details from microsoft homepage: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491010.aspx

See Also

get_tasklist, get_Rscript_PID, get_pid, kill_pid, kill_all_Rscript_s, pskill

Examples

get_pid("rsession") # finds it
get_pid("rsession", exact = TRUE) # doesn't find it
get_pid("rsession.exe", exact = TRUE) # finds it
get_pid(c("wininit", "winlogon"), exact = TRUE) # doesn't find it
get_pid(c("wininit", "winlogon")) # finds it