Local job in RStudio

[flahn]

Title	Local job in RStudio
Date	2021-10-21
Issue	#80
Category	Usability
Description	RStudio offerst a job pane where you can run processing in the background without blocking the console. Also status updates can be followed. This feature can be capitalized upon for querrying the job status on the backend automatically while keeping the console free for further developing in the meanwhile.
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Priority	Medium
Impact	Medium

This is a feature request to mimic the a "local" process when executing a UDP on a back-end. The "rstudioapi" offers functions to run scripts and list them as jobs: https://rdrr.io/cran/rstudioapi/man/jobRunScript.html. The idea here is to prepare a script for a job, that simply polls the back-end every x seconds to get the job status. The rstudioapi even offers the possibility to state status updates.

[przell]

Also interesting for synchronous calls, for not blocking the console!

[flahn]

It would make sense to implement this for:

• compute_results (waiting for the results to be directly available, needs to save the data as file)
• start_job (active polling for results)
• download_results (most benefical if the backends download speed is low)
• maybe also for the upcoming get_sample to check a very smallsubset of data, but I'm not sure, because the data needs to be very small in size and should be processed and returned rather quickly