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R API for peeking at logs?

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Description

Ref: https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/future.batchtools/issues/17

It would be great to be able peek into the logs from a R session in some sort of nice way.

From @HenrikBengtsson:

Having an R API to peek into/browse around in an existing (and possibly even a live/hot) batchtools job registry would be neat. If possible, it's not hard to imagine of pulling out an overview of current jobs, e.g. classical stdout, fancy color-annotated stdout, or even a GUI/Shiny dashboard. I think that such a feature request for a basic querying API is better address to the batchtools project itself.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing batchtools's existing job-registry and log-handling interfaces, then read the referenced future.batchtools issue for the expected use cases. Done means defining and implementing a basic R API for querying an existing batchtools registry and inspecting its logs, with behavior that can be validated for live jobs.

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Assessment

Tech stack
r
Domain
api, distributed-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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