[R] R BATCH job

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, DEVAS, Vipul wrote:

> Hi
> 	I am trying to run a 'R Batch' job on unix machine but somehow it
> locks my dterm window.  If I kill the window (or logout from my unix

Is that dtterm?  What sort of Unix? What shell?

> account) it kills the R job too.  It does'nt seem to happen when I run a
> 'Splus BATCH' command on my unix machine.  Can you please give me a fix for
> this problem?

Peter is well capable of answering this, of course, but he is also
busy finding the last few bugs in R.

In R

R BATCH files &

(bash, csh, tcsh, at least)

is equivalent to

Splus BATCH files.

I've added information on this to the ?BATCH output.

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