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Message-ID: <d8ad40b50911201520j9f62d2dodc4a5fc69102849@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-11-20T23:20:34Z
From: Barry Rowlingson
Subject: can R scripts detect signals sent by the task scheduler ?
In-Reply-To: <0B71F444C6AD524A8C371861CA27F05F04C215CC@FBCMST10V05.fbc.local>

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:01 PM,  <mauede at alice.it> wrote:
> I have just updated R version to 2.10 for Windows.
> I cannot find package "fork" which seems to include? the exception handling
> functions.
> The list that pops up when I select Install Package does not contain any
> fork package (even spelt
> with capital letters).? Where am I supposed to get it from ?

 I suspect there's no such thing for Windows. Process control and
signalling is something very different between operating systems, so
someone needs to write a dedicated Windows version of that package.

 See here:

http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fork/index.html

Barry