[R] Running R in the background

[Jun Yan]

You can have R (or other processes) run in the background through
nohup. At the shell prompt, do

nohup R BATCH --vanilla infile outfile &

You may logout and check your the output file after it finishes.

Jun

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, 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?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Jennifer Hespen

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