[R] batch jobs question

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Chao Zhu wrote:

> I'm doing some R batch jobs in Unix.
> Something like
> R <prog1> output1 --save &
> R <prog2> output2 --save &

Consider R CMD BATCH instead: it redirects the error/warnings too, which I 
expect you would want to do.

> prog1 and prog2 are running at the same time and they are essentially 
> same except it contains different parameter values. I was wondering if 
> two processes will affect each other? Hopefully they are two independent 
> jobs.

They will save in the same file unless you run them from separate 
directories.

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