Or add a last code chunk in Sweave:

<<done,echo=FALSE>>=
alarm()  # equivalent to cat('\a')
@

or use the twitteR pacakge to send yourself a twitter message when it is done...

Regards,
Yihui
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On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Manolo Martínez
<[email protected]> wrote:
> you can always use LyX from the command line, something like
>
> lyx yourfile.lyx && echo $'\a'
>
> No?
>
> On 05/03/12 at 04:31pm, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Richard Heck <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Popping up some kind of notice, besides what you get in the status
>> > bar, seems reasonable.
>> >
>> Unless you're using Update, the 'notice pop-up' is the PDF viewer
>> itself being opened and/or brought up and focused. So I guess that we
>> have now is just fine when the user stays glued to the computer.
>>
>> In my case I'm launching some heavy computations in R, and would thus
>> like to go do something else until the document compiles. Unless there
>> is some audio notification, I can only rely on the noise made by the
>> laptop fans, not a terribly reliable indicator.
>>
>> Liviu
>
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