RStudio: don't close shell terminals

rstats · May 21, 2019, 6:16pm

I often use R (on Windows) to start many independent shell processes in external terminals; e.g.:
shell("start cmd /K [run batch script]")

Once I close R the shell terminals stay open and keep running. If I do this from within RStudio and then close RStudio it will close all shell terminals. Is there any way to tell RStudio to not terminate the shell terminals when it is closed?

kevinushey · May 21, 2019, 7:53pm

Not that I'm aware of -- would you mind filing this as a feature request at https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues, just so we don't lose track of this?

rstats · May 22, 2019, 8:56am

Done:

github.com/rstudio/rstudio

do not close shell windows after closing RStudio

opened 08:55AM - 22 May 19 UTC

closed 12:28PM - 20 Feb 21 UTC

omstats

enhancement stale

I often use R (on Windows) to start many independent shell processes in external… windows; e.g.: shell("start cmd /K [run batch script]") Once I close R the shell windows stay open and keep running. If I do this from within RStudio and then close RStudio it will close all shell windows. While this might be a desirable behaviour for some users I would prefer to have the option that those windows are not closed when RStudio is closed. This since it is standard procedure (at least for pure R and other CMD instances) that a process called with "start" is not closed if the program from which it was launched is closed.

system · June 12, 2019, 8:56am

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