" 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."
Thanks for correcting my misconception - I'm sort of new to this environment. I can start Rserve safely on startup (R CMD Rserve --no-save &) and it works with my applications. Thanks again, Brendan > CC: [email protected] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [R-SIG Question] Starting R on System Startup > Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:17:21 -0500 > > > 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 > > _________________________________________________________________ l. ty_112008 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
