[R] Running R in the background

[Uwe Ligges]

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 write your code into a file, say myfile.R . Then just start R in
its BATCH mode, an tell the process not to hang up if you are logged
off:

  nohup R BATCH myfile.R &

Uwe Ligges
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