NoSleepR in CRAN: keep your machine awake during long R computations

General
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NoSleepR, a small utility package that prevents your machine from going to sleep while long-running R code is executing, and restores normal sleep behavior when it finishes (or errors).

The goal is to avoid situations where a laptop or desktop suspends itself in the middle of a long job, without having to change global power settings.

Basic usage:

#install.packages("NoSleepR")
library(NoSleepR)

with_nosleep({
  # long-running R code here
})

Or enable it for the whole session:

nosleep_on(keep_display = FALSE)
# long-running R code here
nosleep_off()
  • Cross-platform: Windows, macOS, Linux
  • Lightweight: No external system configuration required
  • Optional keep_display mode to prevent screen from turning off.

Repo: GitHub - hetalang/NoSleepR: R package to prevent sleep mode

Feedback and edge-case reports are very welcome.
(Disclosure: I'm the author of the package.)

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