Hi, On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> C-a is not a `signal' but a normal key sequence, and one used by > readline. However, Sorry for the wrong terminology. I tried it again and it works now (even with readline, on RH9.0). The only way I can explain the problem I got yesterday is that the computer reacted very slowly (possibly for high load). Strangely enough, I had tried it on four different computers with the same result... Thank you for your help. Giampiero > > screen R > ctrl-a d > [detached] > screen -r > > works for me apart from not having the usual meaning of crtl-a. I don't > think R is doing anything special, but some versions of readline could > conceivably be. > > I used RH8.0 Linux for this test. I would suggest trying R --no-readline > in case your version of readline is setting the terminal in a way that > conflicts with your version of `screen'. > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Giampiero Salvi wrote: > > > I have problems running R with screen. For those who don't know, > > screen is a unix tool that is quite handy if you want to leave > > a process (that outputs to tty) running when you logout, and > > then recover the session later on. > > > > It works like this: > > 1) run 'screen': you get a normal prompt as if you were in a normal > > shell. > > 2) run whatever command you like > > 3) press 'C-a d' to detach the session. Now you can logoff if you like > > 4) when you want to recover the session type 'screen -r' > > > > The problem is that R seems to catch the 'C-a' signal, and nothing happens. > > Since there is no way to detach the screen, there is no use to it either. > > > > Is there a way around this problem? > > > > Giampiero > > _________________________________________________________ > > Giampiero Salvi, M.Sc. www.speech.kth.se/~giampi > > Speech, Music and Hearing Tel: +46-8-790 75 62 > > Royal Institute of Technology Fax: +46-8-790 78 54 > > Drottning Kristinasv. 31, SE-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html