rstudio - is it possible to run a code in the background

Question

Question regarding RStudio. Suppose I am running a code in the console:

> code1()

assume that code1() prints nothing on the con

Answer 1

The mcparallel() function in the parallel package will do the trick, if you are on Linux, that is ...

library(parallel)
Job1 = mcparallel(code1())
JobResult1 = mccollect(Job1)