Re: [R] Pausing R

2009-10-19 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
In article , b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk says... > If you can't get to the command line where you started R, then you > can send the process the 'STOP' and 'CONT' signals using the 'kill' > command. You need to get the process ID (see "man ps" for this) and > then use "kill -STOP 12345" and "kil

Re: [R] Pausing R

2009-10-19 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: > >> If you start the application using the command line, just press >> 'Ctrl + Z' to pause/suspend it. Then type 'fg' when you want to >> resume it. > >  If you can't get to the

Re: [R] Pausing R

2009-10-19 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: > If you start the application using the command line, just press > 'Ctrl + Z' to pause/suspend it. Then type 'fg' when you want to > resume it. If you can't get to the command line where you started R, then you can send the process th

Re: [R] Pausing R

2009-10-19 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: > In article @mail.gmail.com>, r.m.k...@gmail.com says... >> I am not - I am using Linux. >> >> Just for interests sake: how can I pause a task in Linux? > > If you start the application using the command line, just press > 'Ctrl + Z' to

Re: [R] Pausing R

2009-10-19 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
In article , r.m.k...@gmail.com says... > I am not - I am using Linux. > > Just for interests sake: how can I pause a task in Linux? If you start the application using the command line, just press 'Ctrl + Z' to pause/suspend it. Then type 'fg' when you want to resume it. -- Karl Ove Hufthammer

Re: [R] Pausing R

2009-10-19 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Anders Carlsson wrote: > > Peter Dalgaard wrote: >> >> 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

Re: [R] Pausing R

2009-10-19 Thread Anders Carlsson
Peter Dalgaard wrote: 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 worthle

Re: [R] Pausing R

2009-10-19 Thread Peter Dalgaard
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

Re: [R] Pausing R

2009-10-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/19/2009 7:45 AM, 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 worthles

[R] Pausing R

2009-10-19 Thread Anders Carlsson
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