Package: ipc 0.1.5

Ian E. Fellows

ipc: Tools for Message Passing Between Processes

Provides tools for passing messages between R processes. Shiny examples are provided showing how to perform useful tasks such as: updating reactive values from within a future, progress bars for long running async tasks, and interrupting async tasks based on user input.

Authors:Ian E. Fellows

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# Install 'ipc' in R:

install.packages('ipc', repos = c('https://fellstat.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/fellstat/ipc/issues

On CRAN:

6.22 score 54 stars 61 scripts 354 downloads 17 exports 34 dependencies

Last updated from:1ec559b168. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	121
source / vignettes	OK	208
linux-release-x86_64	OK	125
macos-release-arm64	OK	119
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	184
windows-devel	OK	97
windows-release	OK	84
windows-oldrel	OK	82
wasm-release	OK	124

Exports:AsyncInterruptor AsyncProgress Consumer defaultSource Producer queue Queue redisConfig redisIdGenerator RedisSource ShinyConsumer shinyExample ShinyProducer shinyQueue stopMulticoreFuture tempFileGenerator TextFileSource

Dependencies:backports base64enc base64url bslib cachem cli commonmark digest fastmap filelock fontawesome fs glue htmltools httpuv jquerylib jsonlite later lifecycle magrittr memoise mime otel promises R6 rappdirs Rcpp rlang sass shiny sourcetools txtq withr xtable

Tools for Inter-Process Communication

Ian Fellows

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Last update: 2023-01-18
Started: 2018-08-02

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Help page	Topics
Tools for performing async communication between workers in shiny	ipc-package
An interruptor useful for stopping child processes.	AsyncInterruptor
A progress bar object where inc and set are usable within other processes	AsyncProgress
A Class for reading and executing tasks from a source	Consumer
Get/set the class used to sink/read from the file system	defaultSource
A Class for sending signals to a source	Producer
A Class containing a producer and consumer	Queue queue
Get/set redis configuration	redisConfig
Get/set the location for temporary files	redisIdGenerator
Reads and writes the queue to a redis db	RedisSource
A Consumer class with common task handlers useful in Shiny apps	ShinyConsumer
Run Example Shiny Apps	shinyExample
A Producer with methods specific for Shiny	ShinyProducer
Create a Queue object	shinyQueue
Stops a future run in a multicore plan	stopMulticoreFuture
Get/set the location for temporary files	tempFileGenerator
Reads and writes the queue to a text file	TextFileSource