Progress package

[Pierre de Villemereuil]

Hi all,

If you have time to look at this PR regarding this issue with the "progress" package and tell me if you see anything wrong, I'd be grateful:
https://github.com/r-lib/progress/pull/76

Cheers,
Pierre.

Le Saturday, 3 November 2018, 17:48:43 CET Thomas Friedrichsmeier a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 03 Nov 2018 13:04:44 +0100
> Pierre de Villemereuil <pierre.de.villemereuil at mailoo.org> wrote:
> > The dev is asking whether there is a way to detect RKWard. Is there?
> 
> well, as far as I can see, the function in question is
> progress:::is_supported. That checks if the output stream isatty().
> (Not sure, whether this even works on Windows, but so what).
> 
> Perhaps a better check would be something like:
> 
>   (is_stdout(stream) || is_stderr(stream)) && interactive()
> 
> Untested, but might work without adding a special case for every single
> GUI out there.
> 
> (I suppose the main intention of the check is to avoid writing progress
> bars to a file. But in that case, R is either not interactive() -
> esp. when there is a shell-redirection - or a sink() is in place.
> progress:::is_stdout() seems to check for the latter, already).
> 
> Regards
> Thomas
>