Thank you all for the suggestions. I've been trying different things to make
this work.

Mike I did try what you suggested . It would work normally But i guess here
the problem is my local server itself. It by default takes time to start and
nothing I do is helping . So I came up with the idea to communicate with the
server through R-java connection.
I am halfway through that , I hope it works:)

Thank you all for the response.

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil@dcn.davis.ca.us>wrote:

> The ampersand is a good idea, but nohup is best avoided in scripts. Rather
> the server itself should handle the transition to daemon status to avoid
> ending up with many duplicate server processes running.
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> Mike Marchywka <marchywka@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> ------------------------------
>> > Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:37:12 +0530
>> > From: nandan.amar@gmail.com
>> > To: rasanpreet.kaur@gmail.com
>> > CC: r-help@r-project.org
>> > Subject: Re: [R] system() command in R
>> >
>> > On 4 April 2011 16:54, rasanpreet kaur suri wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi all,
>> > > I have a local server insalled on my system and have to start that from
>> > > within my R function.
>> > >
>> > > here is how I start it:
>> > >
>> > > cmd<-"sh start-server.sh"
>> > >
>> > > system(cmd, wait=FALSE)
>> > >
>> > > My function has to start the server and proceed with further steps. The
>> > > server starts but the further steps of the program are not executed.The
>> > > cursor keeps waiting after the server is started.
>> > >
>> > > How r u executing further steps after starting server, meant for server
>> > from R ??
>> >
>> >
>> > i tried removing the wait=FALSE, but it still keeps waiting.
>> > >
>> > > I also tried putting the start-server in a separate function and my further
>> > > script in a separate function and then run them together, but it still
>> > > waits. The transition from the start of server to next step is not
>> > > happening.
>> > >
>> > > Please help. I have been stuck on this for quite some time now.
>> > >
>> > > --
>>
>> I hadn't done this in R but expect to do so soon.
>> I just got done with some java code to do something similar and you can expect in any implementation these things will be  system dependent. It often helps to have simple test cases to isolate the problem. Here I made a tst script called "foo"
>> that takes a minute or so to exevute and generates some output.
>>
>> If I type
>> system("./foo",wait=F)
>>  the prompt comes back right away but stdout seems to still go to my console and maybe stdin is not redicrected either and it could eat your input ( no idea, but this is probably not what you want).
>>
>> I did try this that could fix your problem, on debian anyway it seems to work,
>>
>> system("nohup ./foo &")
>>  you can "man nohup" for details.
>>
>> > > Rasanpreet Kaur
>> > >
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