co-maintainers welcome lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com Alessandro Barbieri 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. Gábor Csárdi csardi.gabor@gmail.com https://github.com/r-lib/processx/issues r-lib/processx