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

[Martin Tomko]

thank you guys, R CMD BATCH seems the way to go, and I will nudge my 
admin to install screen /byobu

Thanks heaps,
Martin

On 10/14/2010 7:21 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>
>
> 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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