[R] background computation, &

[Marc Kirchner]

Hey Koen,

> Is there a way to process R commands in the background other then using
> R in batch mode? I'm looking for the equivalent of the & operator on the 
> *nix commandline.

Well, that's not R-specific, but what I do is to use "screen", which is
a handy little program that emulates multiple screens in one console.

So you start "screen", fire up R, work with it as usual; then with
Ctrl-a-d you can detach from the screen and do whatever you want
before reattaching with "screen -r".

More info with "man screen". :)

Best,
Marc

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Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Computing (IWR)
Multidimensional Image Processing
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University of Heidelberg
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