Get main process ID.

Get the process ID (PID) of the most recent main R process to orchestrate the targets of the current project.

Usage

tar_pid(store = targets::tar_config_get("store"))

Arguments

store

Character of length 1, path to the targets data store. Defaults to tar_config_get("store"), which in turn defaults to _targets/. When you set this argument, the value of tar_config_get("store") is temporarily changed for the current function call. See tar_config_get() and tar_config_set() for details about how to set the data store path persistently for a project.

Value

Integer with the process ID (PID) of the most recent main R process to orchestrate the targets of the current project.

Details

The main process is the R process invoked by tar_make() or similar. If callr_function is not NULL, this is an external process, and the pid in the return value will not agree with Sys.getpid() in your current interactive session. The process may or may not be alive. You may want to check it with ps::ps_is_running(ps::ps_handle(targets::tar_pid())) before running another call to tar_make() for the same project.

See also

Other data: tar_crew(), tar_load(), tar_load_everything(), tar_load_raw(), tar_objects(), tar_process(), tar_read(), tar_read_raw()

Examples

if (identical(Sys.getenv("TAR_EXAMPLES"), "true")) { # for CRAN
tar_dir({ # tar_dir() runs code from a temp dir for CRAN.
tar_script({
  list(
    tar_target(x, seq_len(2)),
    tar_target(y, 2 * x, pattern = map(x))
  )
}, ask = FALSE)
tar_make()
Sys.getpid()
tar_pid() # Different from the current PID.
})
}