
Hi R people,


I have a Mac OSX server (it's basically a very fast desktop) running R that I'd like to set to run automatically on system reboots.  I tried using the system startup items as I had with other applications, but for whatever reason R wouldn't take.  Interestingly, it sent the standard booting information ("Welcome to R",etc) to the system console, though by the time I could check the process list it was never running.

Do any of you administrate R on OSX?  I've heard some things about a new mac startup interface called launchd - does this work for R?  I know StartupItems is deprecated but I figured I'd check if it was possible in launchd before trying it.  I've searched online for this information for a couple weeks but couldn't find it (for some reason, googling the letter R and the word startup or boot wasn't very fruitful), so I turn to you.  If the answer to this question is RTFM, I don't know where to access that information, so help pages would definitely be appreciated too.

As a corollary to this, I should also be able to require and run Rserve from the R startup files too, right?





Thanks for humoring my questions,
Brendan

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