[R-pkg-team] Bug#904982: ITP: r-cran-processx -- GNU R execute and control system processes

[Andreas Tille]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>

* Package name    : r-cran-processx
  Version         : 3.1.0
  Upstream Author : Gábor Csárdi, Winston Chang, RStudio, Mango Solutions
* URL             : https://cran.r-project.org/package=processx
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: GNU R
  Description     : GNU R execute and control system processes
 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 and their children; restart 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.

Remark: This package is maintained by Debian R Packages Maintainers at
   https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-processx
This package is needed to upgrade r-cran-roxygen2 to its latest upstream
version.