Anders Carlsson wrote: > Hello, > I’m currently running a script that takes several days to complete, and > have therefore chosen to start two instances of R, each doing half the > work (since I have a two-processor machine). The problem is that this > renders my computer worthless to do other work on. So - is it possible > to pause one of the running R instances to do other things for a while, > and then starting it again without losing anything? > > TL;DR I want to know if it is possible to pause a running script.
Well it is easy on Unix/Linux and presumably also MacOSX, but (as Brian Ripley once put it) since you're not telling us what OS you are using, it is probably Windows... Looks like iet is possible there via 3rd party tools; e.g., there's something called DTaskManager. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
