First digit of queue overlapped by activity indicator if reporter = "summary" in tar_make()

[matthiasgomolka]

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Description

When I build a targets pipeline using tar_make(reporter = "summary"), the first digit of the number in the queue column is overlapped by the activity indicator. See the screenshot. The | below the q from queue hides a 1 here.

I'm working on Windows.

Reproducible example

# temporary working directory
setwd(tempdir())

# packages
library(targets)
#> Warning: package 'targets' was built under R version 4.0.4
library(visNetwork)
#> Warning: package 'visNetwork' was built under R version 4.0.3

# _targets.R
tar_script(
  code = list(
    tar_target(n_random, rep(1, 1500)),
    tar_target(random, runif(n_random), pattern = map(n_random))
  ),
  ask = FALSE
)

tar_make(reporter = "summary")
#> queue  | start  | skip   | built  | cancel | error  | warn
#> |482   | 1      | 1      |        |        |        |
# Note: The table was faked here, because `reprex` just appended all table updates into a very long string.
#       You only see the problem in an interactive session.

^{Created on 2021-03-24 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}

Session info

devtools::session_info()
#> - Session info ---------------------------------------------------------------
#>  setting  value                       
#>  version  R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
#>  os       Windows 10 x64              
#>  system   x86_64, mingw32             
#>  ui       RTerm                       
#>  language en                          
#>  collate  German_Germany.1252         
#>  ctype    German_Germany.1252         
#>  tz       Europe/Berlin               
#>  date     2021-03-24                  
#> 
#> - Packages -------------------------------------------------------------------
#>  package     * version date       lib source        
#>  assertthat    0.2.1   2019-03-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
#>  callr         3.5.1   2020-10-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  cli           2.2.0   2020-11-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  codetools     0.2-16  2018-12-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
#>  crayon        1.3.4   2017-09-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
#>  data.table    1.13.2  2020-10-19 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  desc          1.2.0   2018-05-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  devtools      2.3.2   2020-09-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  digest        0.6.27  2020-10-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  ellipsis      0.3.1   2020-05-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  evaluate      0.14    2019-05-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  fansi         0.4.1   2020-01-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  fs            1.5.0   2020-07-31 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  glue          1.4.2   2020-08-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  highr         0.8     2019-03-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  htmltools     0.5.0   2020-06-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  htmlwidgets   1.5.2   2020-10-03 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  igraph        1.2.6   2020-10-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  jsonlite      1.7.1   2020-09-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  knitr         1.30    2020-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  lifecycle     0.2.0   2020-03-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  magrittr      2.0.1   2020-11-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  memoise       1.1.0   2017-04-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  pillar        1.4.7   2020-11-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  pkgbuild      1.1.0   2020-07-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  pkgconfig     2.0.3   2019-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  pkgload       1.1.0   2020-05-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  prettyunits   1.1.1   2020-01-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  processx      3.4.4   2020-09-03 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  ps            1.4.0   2020-10-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  purrr         0.3.4   2020-04-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  R6            2.5.0   2020-10-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  remotes       2.2.0   2020-07-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  rlang         0.4.9   2020-11-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  rmarkdown     2.5     2020-10-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  rprojroot     2.0.2   2020-11-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  sessioninfo   1.1.1   2018-11-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  stringi       1.5.3   2020-09-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
#>  stringr       1.4.0   2019-02-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  targets     * 0.2.0   2021-02-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.4)
#>  testthat      3.0.0   2020-10-31 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  tibble        3.0.4   2020-10-12 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  tidyselect    1.1.0   2020-05-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  usethis       1.6.3   2020-09-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  vctrs         0.3.5   2020-11-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  visNetwork  * 2.0.9   2019-12-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  withr         2.3.0   2020-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  xfun          0.19    2020-10-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#>  yaml          2.2.1   2020-02-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
#> 
#> [1] C:/Program Files/R/R4.0.2/library

Expected result

I would suggest to indent the summary tabe by two characters. Then, there would be the activity indicator, a blank space and then the summary table.

[matthiasgomolka]

I noticed that this is not a problem with callr_function = NULL, because then there is not activity indicator.

[wlandau]

Thanks, I just removed the default spinner for non-"silent" reporters. That should fix it.