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...command prevents new input to R until it has completed. The important feature is that RunAsynchSameSession must tell the progam that called it that it was done. Second choice is to start an independent process, BATCH or something similar, and save the resulting data objects in an .rda file. RunAsynchBatch("myfile.r", "outputname.rda") The RunAsynchBatch would start a batch process and complete immediately after starting the batch file. The batch file would run independently until it was completed. While I know how to do this, for example with system(wait=FALSE), I would apprec...