for /l %i in (1,1,1) do @start /b rscript -e "system.time(for(i in 1:1e4){fisher.test(matrix(c(200,300,400,500),nrow=2))})" user system elapsed 54.50 0.04 54.63 for /l %i in (1,1,2) do @start /b rscript -e "system.time(for(i in 1:1e4){fisher.test(matrix(c(200,300,400,500),nrow=2))})" user system elapsed 55.64 0.00 55.77 user system elapsed 55.92 0.02 56.08 Test of multiple concurrent R processes on Windows XP on a dual-core machine(R version 2.9.2)