Print total duration on completion

[jarauh]

It would be good if the progress bar could report the total duration. At least, it could make the starting time available publicly. Or there could be a method that provides the running time so far (and the total duration on completion).

[scottkosty]

Or there could be a method that provides the running time so far (and the total duration on completion).

Indeed, this would be helpful when combined with clear = FALSE. During the actual computation, I want to know :eta. But after the computation is done, I would like to know how long it took. I prefer not to use both :elapsed and :eta.

[gaborcsardi]

I believe this is possible with the cli package, which we prefer now for progress bars: https://cli.r-lib.org/reference/index.html#progress-bars

[jarauh]

Thanks for the pointer to cli, @gaborcsardi. Just for curiosity, who is "we" (in "we prefer" cli)?
Do you consider progress to be deprecated?

[gaborcsardi]

"we" is the r-lib/tidyverse team. progress is de facto superseded by cli, it will be formally superseded soon. It is not going away, and we'll fix serious bugs, but won't add new features.

[jarauh]

Thank you, good to know.