Is running R directly on the server machine and displaying via X or Xvnc an 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 considering 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 ______________________________________________ R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
client-server setup for R
3 messages · Huntsinger, Reid, roger bos, Barry Rowlingson
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 via X or Xvnc an 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 considering 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
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roger bos wrote:
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?
What OS is your server running? If you are running Windows Server 2003 and have the requisite licenses, you should be able to have more than one person connect via Remote Desktop and run R. I'm guessing this 'Server' is just running vanilla Win XP or 2000. We have a lab of thin clients that connect to a Windows box running Win 2003 Server, and have no problem with multiple logins, multiple R sessions and so on. However our users seem to prefer to connect to the Linux service in the lab and use R on that! Baz