client-server setup for R

You have probably considered this and it's not an option, but just in case
it is, I suspect you could buy a dual Xeon machine with 4 GB RAM and run
Linux + Samba etc for far less than the license fees for the Windows Server
OS and S+ components. (Probably a whole cluster, in fact!) Then users could
use Cygwin's X server or Xvnc on their Windows desktops to run things like R
on it. The setup takes a little time, but ongoing maintenance requirements
are very low. 

Reid Huntsinger

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of roger bos
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 10:57 AM
To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] client-server setup for R

Maybe I didn't state my question as well as I should have.  First of
all, this is a windows environment.  I currently run R on my desktop
and I also have a server that I use that the connect to using remote
desktop.  Each machine has 4GB of memory and is a P4.  I run R on my
machine and on the server so I can have two programs running at once. 
Other people in the company don't have as much memory as I do and have
older machines, so they may have trouble running R on their desktop. 
And two people can't remote desktop into the server at the same time.

So my restated question is, how do I share my server with other useRs?
 If this is more of an IT question than an R question, I apologize,
but it seems that S+ have a server version where clients connect from
their desktop and submit jobs and I was wonder is there is an R
version.

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:47:53 -0500, Huntsinger, Reid