Colleagues, I have encountered the following situation in R (2.9.0) with Windows XP.
I have an application that calls Rterm.exe. In certain situations, the application terminates but fails to close R. Then, the next time that the application runs, there are replicated copies of R running - this slows the system. One solution would be to kill any open versions of Rterm.exe each time the application terminates. But, that would affect other legitimate copies of Rterm.
The solution to that problem is simple. Instead of running Rterm.exe, I copy Rterm.exe to Rterm-nnnnn.exe, execute that version, then when the job is complete, I can specifically terminate that version using Window's taskkill command.
Unfortunately, I just encountered a new problem. If the R folder has restricted privileges, it appears that I cannot copy Rterm.exe to the same folder. So, I attempted a work-around, i.e., move the copy to another folder (e.g., Desktop). However, this does not work - when the copy is in another location, it opens, then closes immediately.
So, my question is: is there some means to call Rterm.exe (I assume that the same would apply to R.exe) from a folder other the bin?
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