R and sun gridengine

Kim Carter wrote:

Hi

I am looking for assistance with setting up R under Sun grid engine 6
(6.0-update7). I would like to set up transparent interactive access
to R using either a qlogin or qrsh solution. While it basically works
using either method, I reach the same sticking point.  There seems
to be an issue with signalling or something, as R works ok until a 
non-R command is typed in - eg "blah" - at which point the remote
session is terminated (note: i am using ssh as an rsh/rlogin replacement).

If anyone has any suggestions or can point me in the  right direction,
it would be greatly appreciated.

Kim Carter


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Are you trying something like
'qrsh R' ? Then the reason might be a missing tty and R goes to 
batch-mode, like:

bagheera:~>qrsh tty
not a tty

but:

bagheera:~>qrsh
Last login: Fri Mar 24 14:02:47 from bagheera.CeBiTe
morpheus:~> tty
/dev/pts/3

If you supply a command to qrsh, you will not have a terminal.

I think there is no switch to force R into interactive mode,like for 
example for 'bash -i'. I found: 
http://www.r-project.org/nocvs/mail/r-help/2002/8927.html
but have not checked if it still works.

Maybe this helps
Michael








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