On 9/7/05, Thomas Petzoldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Omar Lakkis schrieb:
> > Using system() is theer a way to make the R interpreter not wait for
> > the command to finish?
>
> system("cmd", wait=FALSE)
>
> see ?system in online help.
>
Coincidentially I recently posted on r-devel a note pointing out that
system is not the same on all operating systems.
https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2005-September/034539.html
In particular, wait= is available on Windows but not on UNIX.
On UNIX you could & in the usual way.
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