Douglas Bates wrote: > On 2/19/07, Nils Höller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have some big calculations in R to be done. >> Since I can use R on a server with ssh, i was wondering if I can reopen >> a R Shell after exiting ssh. >> >> I don't want to use the batch mode and nohup doesn't work. >> >> I want to use something like >> ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> R >> ---do something in R and start calculation --- >> close ssh but let R remain on the server, doing the calculation >> >> ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> open the existing R Shell / Process >> >> Has anyone done something similiar? >> Can you help me or suggest an other solution ? > > I don't think it is possible to reattach to a process started in one > ssh session from another ssh session. However, you can put a session
No, it is. Check out the screen command - it is backgrounding your session, you can have several running at the same time and reattach and they persist between logouts (obviously, if you switch the computer of, it is gone...) Rainer > into the background with the -f flag to ssh. You haven't told us what > operating system you are starting the ssh connection on and what > system will run the R process. If I had an X server running on the > local system and the remote system provided X clients like xterm I > would do this by > > ssh -X -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] xterm > > This should spring up an autonomous xterm window on the local machine > after which you can run R in it. > > I hope this helps. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South Africa Tel: +27 - (0)72 808 2975 (w) Fax: +27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax: +27 - (0)21 808 3304 (w) Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.