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Is there a way to call an R function to work in the background within the same R session? What I have in mind is the equivalent of adding '&' at the end of a UNIX command, so that R can process an intensive command while I execute other R commands. I want to do this in the same R session, rather than with multiple calls to R, so that all my modified objects will stay in the same

All, I am trying to use a named pipe to steer R from an external application. Following the examples in RNEWS 1:1, I have created a simple listener: zz <- fifo("TESTFIFO", "r") repeat { a <- readLines(zz) if(length(a) != 0) { e <- try(eval(parse(text = a))) if (inherits(e,

I've had time to return to the "external editor" project. The following function does almost what I want, which is to allow an external editor to feed command lines to R. ext.editor<-function(editor) { ext.input<-pipe(editor,"r") eval(parse(ext.input)) close(ext.input) } While the description of parse() indicates that it should parse input line by line, the