[Solved] Running jobs in background in R

Question

What would help is to output it to a file when you have computed it and then parse that file everytime you open R. Write yourself a computeMatrix() function or script to produce a file with the matrix stored in a sensible format. Also write yourself a loadMatrix() function or script to read in that file and load the matrix into memory for use, then call or run loadMatrix everytime you start R and want to use the matrix.

In terms of running an R job in the background, you can run an R script from the command line with the syntax “R CMD BATCH scriptName” with scriptName replaced by the name of your script.

Accepted Answer

What would help is to output it to a file when you have computed it and then parse that file everytime you open R. Write yourself a computeMatrix() function or script to produce a file with the matrix stored in a sensible format. Also write yourself a loadMatrix() function or script to read in that file and load the matrix into memory for use, then call or run loadMatrix everytime you start R and want to use the matrix.

In terms of running an R job in the background, you can run an R script from the command line with the syntax “R CMD BATCH scriptName” with scriptName replaced by the name of your script.