Is Terminal Busy

Source: R/terminal.R

Are terminals reporting that they are busy?

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

if (FALSE) {
# 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")
}