terminalBusy {rstudioapi}R Documentation

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

Note

The terminalBusy function was added in version 1.1.350 of RStudio.

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")

## End(Not run)
[Package rstudioapi version 0.7 Index]