
" I think you're adding the wrong thing - clearly adding the R itself is  
 useless since it will just show what you saw and exit since it has  
 nothing to do."

Thanks for correcting my misconception - I'm sort of new to this environment.  I can start Rserve safely on startup (R CMD Rserve --no-save &) and it works with my applications.


Thanks again,
Brendan

> CC: r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch
> From: simon.urbanek@r-project.org
> To: brendanveeneman@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [R-SIG Question] Starting R on System Startup
> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:17:21 -0500
> 
> 
> On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 AM, brendan veeneman wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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.
> >
> 
 I think you're adding the wrong thing - clearly adding the R itself is  
 useless since it will just show what you saw and exit since it has  
 nothing to do.
> 
> I have still absolutely no idea what are you trying to do. R is an  
> interpreter so running it on startup makes no sense unless you have a  
> script to run. If you want to run the R.app GUI, that's whole another  
> story and that should work just fine with startup items.
> 
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Of course, but this has nothing to do with R ... I suspect that you're  
> mixing up several concepts here ...
> 
> 
> >  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?
> >
> 
> Sure, but why would you do it in such a convoluted way? You can start  
> Rserve directly right away (see R CMD Rserve) and you could easily do  
> that via LaunchAgents ...
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 

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