Hi Matt, Not sure about renaming it but what about something like:
$ ps -aux | grep R each process will have a unique PID that you can use to tell them apart (possibly even the call that started it, but I am not presently in a position to test and do not remember for certain). HTH, Josh On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Matthew Keller <mckellerc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Perhaps this is more of a unix question, but I'll give it a try here. > I am running 9 different R processes at the same time (called from a > shell script using R CMD BATCH). When I use the top program to > monitor how they are doing, it is impossible to tell which R process > is related to which R script. Is there a way to rename a specific > instantiation of an R process in top with another, more informative > name, e.g., something like R-script1 R-script2 etc? > > Thank you, > > Matt > > -- > Matthew C Keller > Asst. Professor of Psychology > University of Colorado at Boulder > www.matthewckeller.com > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ 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.
