[ess] acroread running on the side

[Thomas Lumley]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, A.J. Rossini wrote:

> Fredrik Lundgren <fredrik.lundgren at norrkoping.mail.telia.com> writes:
>
>
> > Hello ess esses,
> >
> > In SuSE 8.1, R 1.62 and Xemacs 21.4 and Ess 5.1.24
> >
> > I use
> > system(acroread afile.pdf, intern = FALSE)
> >
> > the file opens up OK but further activity in R is locked.
>
> Happens without ESS/XEmacs, as well.
>
> > I would like to have the file on the desktop and change between
> > the pdf document and Xemacs
> >
> > what to do?
>
> Possibilities:
>
> 1. Get the R core to have a system call which dispatches/forks a
>    process.

As Tony points out, this is an R issue. Except that it isn't even an R
issue.

Unix and Linux provide a perfectly good way to dispatch and fork a process

system("acroread afile.pdf &")

	-thomas