[R] Running R in the background

[Luis Torgo]

On Monday 23 September 2002 15:54, Jennifer Hespen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running an R calculation on a Linux machine remotely. The calculations
> take about 5 hours to complete, and inevitably my connection gets reset
> before I finish my calculations. Someone told me that there is a way to
> invoke R in the background, but I have not been able to find out how. Is
> this possible, and if so how?

You can do something like:

$> nohup /usr/bin/R --vanilla  < myCode.R &

This will create a file "nohup.out" with the output of your program. After 
running the above command you may logout your connection.



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