background-package: Background calculations

In background: This packages allow users to ``background'' computations.

Description

Perform calculations concurently in the background thereby freeing the R console to perform other tasks. The package currently supports a sequential backend, where the calculation is evaluted when it is brought into the foreground along with a multicore backend, where the calculation is started immediately after it is backgrounded. Other packages, such as multicore.background can be used for true process backgrounding.

Details

Package:	background
Type:	Package
Version:	0.1
Date:	2011-04-07
License:	LGPL-2
LazyLoad:	yes

Author(s)

Michael J. Kane

Maintainer: Mike <[e-mail]>

Examples

## Not run: 
# Background a simple R expression.
bg.comp <- bg({Sys.sleep(2); "Awake!\n"})

# If the calculation is not complete do something else.
if (!done(bg.comp)) {
  cat("Waiting for calculation\n")
}

# Output the result.
cat(fg(bg.comp))

## End(Not run)

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