[Rd] Background session with R

[Norm Matloff]

My Rdsm package will do what you want, 

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rdsm/index.html

Norm Matloff

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> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 17:12:57 +0000
> From: "Stravs, Michael" <Michael.Stravs at eawag.ch>
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> Hi,
> 
> I am working on some code to have a background R process running that I can submit data to, check computation progress, and retrieve results later. I am aware that "parallel" does a lot of that - however, "parallel" shuts down the nodes when I quit the master process. On the contrary, I would want these nodes to continue running, so I can fire up R again later and reconnect to the nodes to retrieve the results.
> 
> The use case is Shiny apps, where I want a thin frontend as a GUI, workflow launcher and result viewer, and launch background computation that isn't dependent on the Shiny script staying alive.
> 
> Has this been done already, and/or are there simple modifications of parallel/snow/etc that allow this? My current WIP thing uses Rserve.
> 
> (shiny-discuss cc'd).
> 
> Michael Stravs
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