Running R Remotely on LINUX
You should investigate using the parallel package. You have to have R installed on the Linux machine along with any contributed packages you use, but you can delegate tasks to it from within an Rgui or RStudio session running on your Windows box. There are even tutorials online that step you through setting up a "cloud" computer to serve this purpose.
It is possible to install R under your own account on a Linux server, but there are more hiccups to overcome in doing so. There is a small charge for using cloud servers, but if you use it right then the cost can be quite cheap.
Note that while you can set up Windows servers in the cloud, they are not as well suited to this remote use as Linux servers are, so it is worth the effort to learn enough to do that.
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On April 14, 2015 9:57:28 AM PDT, Michael Haenlein <haenlein at escpeurope.eu> wrote:
Dear all, I am used to running R locally on my Windows-based PC. Since some of my computations are taking a lot of time I am now trying to move to a remote R session on a LINUX server but I am having trouble to getting things work. I am able to access the LINUX server using PuTTY and SSH. Once I have access I can log in with my username and password (which is asked through keyboard-interactive authentication). I can then open an R session. Since I am not used to working with LINUX, I have several questions: (1) Ideally I am looking for a Windows-based software that would allow me to work on R as I am used to with the difference that the computations are run remotely on the LINUX server. Does a software like this exist? Please note that I do not think that I can install any software on the LINUX server. But I can install stuff on my Windows-based PC. (2) I am running an extensive simulation that takes about one week to run. Right now it seems that when I log out of R on LINUX and close PuTTY, the R session closes as well. Is there a way to let R run in the background for the week and just check into the progress 1-2 times a day? (3) Can I open several instances of R in parallel? On my PC I sometimes have 2-3 windows open in parallel that work on different calculations to save time. Not sure to which extent this is possible on LINUX. I assume that this questions are very na?ve. But since I?m only used to working with Windows I?m quite stuck at the moment. Any help would be very appreciated! Thanks in advance, Michael Michael Haenlein Professor of Marketing ESCP Europe [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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