On a Unix like system you can do `nice +19 R' or perhaps `nice +19 R
CMD BATCH commands.R'.

-roger

Robert Burrows wrote:
>
> I would like to use the 'nice' command when running CPU-intensive R
> functions on a server. Will starting R with 'nice R' do the trick?
>

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Roger D. Peng
http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/

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