Package: processx Title: Execute and Control System Processes Version: 3.9.0.9000 Authors@R: c( person("Gábor", "Csárdi", , "csardi.gabor@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-7098-9676")), person("Winston", "Chang", role = "aut"), person("Posit Software, PBC", role = c("cph", "fnd"), comment = c(ROR = "03wc8by49")), person("Ascent Digital Services", role = c("cph", "fnd")) ) Description: Tools to run system processes in the background. It can check if a background process is running; wait on a background process to finish; get the exit status of finished processes; kill background processes. It can read the standard output and error of the processes, using non-blocking connections. 'processx' can poll a process for standard output or error, with a timeout. It can also poll several processes at once. License: MIT + file LICENSE URL: https://processx.r-lib.org, https://github.com/r-lib/processx BugReports: https://github.com/r-lib/processx/issues Depends: R (>= 3.4.0) Imports: ps (>= 1.9.3), R6, utils Suggests: callr (>= 3.7.3), cli (>= 3.3.0), codetools, covr, curl, debugme, parallel, pkgload, rlang (>= 1.0.2), testthat (>= 3.0.0), webfakes, withr Config/Needs/website: tidyverse/tidytemplate Config/testthat/edition: 3 Config/usethis/last-upkeep: 2025-04-25 Encoding: UTF-8 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE) Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0 Repository: https://r-lib.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-05-17 19:33:08 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/r-lib/processx RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 9ccac97dc453bbba5463a4484f01916399d334c7 NeedsCompilation: yes Packaged: 2026-06-23 16:19:39 UTC; root Author: Gábor Csárdi [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID: ), Winston Chang [aut], Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd] (ROR: ), Ascent Digital Services [cph, fnd] Maintainer: Gábor Csárdi