Hi Brendan,
On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 AM, brendan veeneman wrote:
Hi R people,
I have a Mac OSX server (it's basically a very fast desktop) running
R that I'd like to set to run automatically on system reboots. I
tried using the system startup items as I had with other
applications, but for whatever reason R wouldn't take.
Interestingly, it sent the standard booting information ("Welcome to
R",etc) to the system console, though by the time I could check the
process list it was never running.
Out of curiosity, by "system startup items" do you mean the System
Preferences > Accounts > YOU > Login Items, or something else?
Do any of you administrate R on OSX? I've heard some things about a
new mac startup interface called launchd - does this work for R? I
know StartupItems is deprecated but I figured I'd check if it was
possible in launchd before trying it. I've searched online for this
information for a couple weeks but couldn't find it (for some
reason, googling the letter R and the word startup or boot wasn't
very fruitful), so I turn to you. If the answer to this question is
RTFM, I don't know where to access that information, so help pages
would definitely be appreciated too.
As a corollary to this, I should also be able to require and run
Rserve from the R startup files too, right?
I'm not exactly sure what's going south with your setup, but have you
stumbled on Lingon?:
http://tuppis.com/lingon/
It's a GUI for creating/editing launchd config files. I haven't
actually tried it, but it looks pretty self explanatory and might
help. You have several options to choose from when making your new
launchd config, but I suspect you can best decide what options are best.
HTH,
-steve
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