[R] using 'nice' with R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote:

> Roger D. Peng writes:
>
>> On a Unix like system you can do `nice +19 R' or perhaps `nice +19 R
>> CMD BATCH commands.R'.
>
> At least on Suse (9.1) and Debian (3.0) Linux, the syntax is
> `nice -19 R' (i.e. with `-', not `+'.)

The syntax depends on the shell you use: tcsh for example works as Roger 
says, and the `nice' executable as you say.

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