Character vector to put a spinner on the screen

Source: R/spinner.R

cli contains many different spinners, you choose one according to your taste.

get_spinner(which = NULL)

Arguments

which

The name of the chosen spinner. If NULL, then the default is used, which can be customized via the cli.spinner_unicode, cli.spinner_ascii and cli.spinner options. (The latter applies to both Unicode and ASCII displays. These options can be set to the name of a builting spinner, or to a list that has an entry called frames, a character vector of frames.

Value

A list with entries: name, interval: the suggested update interval in milliseconds and frames: the character vector of the spinner's frames.

See also

Other spinners: demo_spinners(), list_spinners(), make_spinner()

Examples

get_spinner()

#> $name
#> [1] "dots"
#> 
#> $interval
#> [1] 80
#> 
#> $frames
#>  [1] "⠋" "⠙" "⠹" "⠸" "⠼" "⠴" "⠦" "⠧" "⠇" "⠏"
#> 
get_spinner("shark")

#> $name
#> [1] "shark"
#> 
#> $interval
#> [1] 120
#> 
#> $frames
#>  [1] "▐|\\____________▌" "▐_|\\___________▌" "▐__|\\__________▌"
#>  [4] "▐___|\\_________▌" "▐____|\\________▌" "▐_____|\\_______▌"
#>  [7] "▐______|\\______▌" "▐_______|\\_____▌" "▐________|\\____▌"
#> [10] "▐_________|\\___▌" "▐__________|\\__▌" "▐___________|\\_▌"
#> [13] "▐____________|\\▌" "▐____________/|▌"  "▐___________/|_▌" 
#> [16] "▐__________/|__▌"  "▐_________/|___▌"  "▐________/|____▌" 
#> [19] "▐_______/|_____▌"  "▐______/|______▌"  "▐_____/|_______▌" 
#> [22] "▐____/|________▌"  "▐___/|_________▌"  "▐__/|__________▌" 
#> [25] "▐_/|___________▌"  "▐/|____________▌" 
#>