Message-ID: <8ADCAEAC-340B-467F-AA62-F551558F6611@r-project.org>
Date: 2005-10-17T14:43:02Z
From: Simon Urbanek
Subject: Control R from another program (written in Delphi)
In-Reply-To: <4353875F.8090908@sun.ac.za>
Rainer,
On Oct 17, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Rainer M. Krug wrote:
> At the moment I am using the (D)COM interface but as I would like
> to run R on a Linux Cluster, thits is not an option any more.
> What is the easiest way of copntrolluing R over the network? I
> thought about sockets, but I am a little bit stuck.
We have been using snow+Rpvm very successfully. There are tons of
other approaches and tools as well (mosix, rmpi, snowFT, ...). I
would start with snow, because it is very flexible and even offers
socket-only solution when necessary.
Cheers,
Simon