Is there a way to make R beep/play a sound at the end of a script?

Question

When I run R scripts I go do something else on a different desktop. If I don't check frequently, I never know when something is finished. Is there a way to invoke a beep (like a system beep) or get R to play a sound or notify growl via some code at the end of my script?

Answer 1

To play a sound at the end of a script, you can use the beep() function from the beepr package as follows:

install.packages("beepr")

library(beepr)

beep(1)

You can play different sounds just by passing different numbers as the beep function argument.i.e.,

beep(3)

beep(5)

beep(2)

beep(6)

beep(7)

beep(8)

beep(1)

beep(3)