BITS seminar, Nov 4, 2015. Topic is Using Departmental Linux Servers and ITaP Clusters for Large Scale Statistical Analysis with R  (Part 1).  This talk describes the differences between R CMD BATCH and Rscript, running jobs in the background using nohup, passing variables to Rscript on the command line, how .RData files can kill performance, timing programs, checking CPU utilization, writing a program to generate scripts.