[R] running a long R process on Linux using putty - best practice to disconnect

[Uwe Ligges]

On 14.10.2010 18:07, Martin Tomko wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am sure this has been solved before, googling did not help much,.
> Warning, I am not great with putty/linux servers
>
> Situation: I have been given access to an R installation on a Linux
> server to do some larger number crunching that was killing my machine. I
> use putty to connect, and then go R, source("myscript") and all is fine
> But this will take potentially days, and I would like to disconnect
>
> What is the best practice? Someone mentionne nohup, but this would
> require starting the R script with an argument to R, I think. Is this
> doable?

Right, just do

nohup R CMD BATCH myscript.R &

and make sure you save all relevant results into files within myscript.R

Uwe Ligges


> Another option was using screen, btu that is not available on the server.
> Any help is welcome.
 >
> Thanks
> Martin
>
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