rstudioapi (version 0.11)

terminalBusy: Is Terminal Busy

Description

Are terminals reporting that they are busy?

Usage

terminalBusy(id)

Arguments

id

The terminal id. The id is obtained from terminalList(), terminalVisible(), terminalCreate(), or terminalExecute().

Value

a boolean

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# create a hidden terminal and run a lengthy command
termId <- rstudioapi::terminalCreate(show = FALSE)
rstudioapi::terminalSend(termId, "sleep 5\n")

# wait until a busy terminal is finished
while (rstudioapi::terminalBusy(termId)) {
  Sys.sleep(0.1)
}
print("Terminal available")
# }

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