R: Kill a process and (optionally) all its child processes

proc_kill {xfun} | R Documentation

## Kill a process and (optionally) all its child processes

### Description

Run the command `taskkill /f /pid` on Windows and `kill` on Unix, respectively, to kill a process.

### Usage

    proc_kill(pid, recursive = TRUE, ...)

### Arguments

`pid` | The process ID.
`recursive` | Whether to kill the child processes of the process.
`...` | Arguments to be passed to `system2()` to run the command to kill the process.

### Value

The status code returned from `system2()`.

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