If I'm not mistaken, the problem of sharing applications on a Windows server
among several users is not particular to R, but applies generally to that
environment, and Reid's suggestion is the cheap(-est.?) way of getting
around it. (Windows is simply not designed for that kind of usage, whereas
Linux, like Unix, _is_ designed for that.) The problem is that it'd be
difficult to cut-and-paste graphics as you could on a Windows box (although
that might not be doable via remote desktop, either --- I don't know).
I routinely run upwards of 4 different, simultaneous R sessions on my 1.6GHz
P-M laptop with 1GB ram, along with a few other applications. Never have
problems as long as none of them deal with very large data.
Andy
From: Huntsinger, Reid
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
<reid_huntsinger at merck.com> wrote:
Is running R directly on the server machine and displaying
option?
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 9:28 AM
To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] client-server setup for R
I am currently the only use-R at my company, but they are
buy a more powerful server and letting multiple people use it. They
asked me if R supports client-server setups. I know S+ has a server
version that does that. I didn't find anything about that on CRAN,
but hopefully someone can correct me.
I did see some stuff about R web servers
(http://franklin.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu/R.web.servers/ )
and that looked very interesting, but I don't know which one is best
and I don't want to spend all my time in HTML programming to make
front ends of all the users. If I have no choice but to go the web
server route, which one is the most mature?
If I can't show them a pluasible solution, IT will make use buy S+
server and I will have to modify all my code to make it work. I
really enjoy working in R.
Thanks,
Roger J. Bos