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RStudio jobs support

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From callr: ```r fun

gaborcsardi

Serialization support

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This is not ready yet. Raw vectors are done, but the interesting part will be serializing to mmap-ed memory and back.

gaborcsardi

Experimental mmap on Unix

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This could be in its own package, potentially, but since we pass the file descriptor to the subprocess as a processx connection, it is here now. Notes: - Poc implementation....

gaborcsardi

Support pty on Windows 10

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gaborcsardi

I.e. create and manage multiple subprocess and connect them with FIFOs / pipes. We can also call an R function to read out the output from the last command with...

gaborcsardi

Idea: create an executable that embeds R and run that instead of R / Rterm

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Then we'll have better control over everything, e.g. whether we create a console on Windows, whether we output UTF-8, etc.

gaborcsardi

poc on Unix: ```r unlink("/tmp/fifo") system("mkfifo /tmp/fifo") script

gaborcsardi

Could potentially fix #229, and #72, not on all OSes, though.

gaborcsardi

Kill processes on unload, on Windows

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gaborcsardi

Add ability to get run time duration for `callr::r_bg`

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I'd like to be able to run `callr::r_bg()` and then get the duration of time it took to run func, or at least time from opening the R session to...

sckott