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.
I think you're adding the wrong thing - clearly adding the R itself is
useless since it will just show what you saw and exit since it has
nothing to do.
I have still absolutely no idea what are you trying to do. R is an
interpreter so running it on startup makes no sense unless you have a
script to run. If you want to run the R.app GUI, that's whole another
story and that should work just fine with startup items.
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?
Of course, but this has nothing to do with R ... I suspect that you're
mixing up several concepts here ...
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?
Sure, but why would you do it in such a convoluted way? You can start
Rserve directly right away (see R CMD Rserve) and you could easily do
that via LaunchAgents ...
Cheers,
Simon
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