[R] R CMD BATCH: & and nohup

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Agustin Lobo <alobo at ija.csic.es> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> I 've observed that, at least in my system, a non-interactive
> R session requires &, i.e.:
> 
> R CMD BATCH commandfile.in logfile.out &
> 
> Is nohup also required to avoid that the R session be  halted
> after logging out? i.e.
> 
> nohup R CMD BATCH commandfile.in logfile.out &

This might be system dependent, but the BATCH script does nothing to
trap HUP signals and neither does R itself, so I suspect the answer is
yes. Can't hurt, certainly.

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