You could always just run something like system("path/to/R/RScript myfile.R")
from within R. But this also sounds like something that the parallel package may be helpful with to use your 8 cores to speed up your update process. On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Brigid Mooney <bkmoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a way to start multiple instances of R in an automated manner? > > Since I'm not sure that question makes tons of sense, here's my scenario: > > I have a number of data updates that need to be completed on an ongoing > basis with the data pulled from and then stored to another location. The > updates are manually triggered, so can build up in terms of the volume that > needs to be updated. > > The updates can take a lot of time if I run everything from within a single > Rgui, but it isn't a big deal if there aren't a lot of accumulated updates > that need to be run. > > But say if I have a week or a month's worth of accumulated updates to run, > this takes a LOT of time in a single Rgui. If I split it up, I can run it > on 6 Rgui's (I'm in windows 7 with an 8 Core machine) and increase my > overall efficiency. But this requires manual intervention as there are > steps before (that figure out how big the updates that must be run are) and > then steps after that summarize and give me some metadata. > > What I would love is something that will execute within an existing Rgui > and allows me to send a command (such as source( "myfile.R" ) to a new > Rgui. Does such a command even exist or is this just wishful thinking? > > I'm trying to avoid writing a wrapfile in another language which would be > able to source the .R file as most of this (before and after the ideal > split point) is written in R already. > > (FWIW Windows 7, 8 core machine running 64bit R) > > Thanks, > Brigid > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. 538...@gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.