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R running as a server on windows?

7 messages · Uwe Ligges, Rowe, Brian Lee Yung (Portfolio Analytics), Greg Snow +2 more

Antje
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Hi there,

I'm not sure whether this is the right mailing list to put this question... if 
not, please tell me where I can find help.

I have a spare dual-core machine which run Windows XP Professional and is 
nearly unused (nearly! Unfortunately, I cannot change OS).
And I'm investigating Knime (knime.org) to set up data analysis workflows. They 
have some nodes to execute R on a remote machine. Is it possible to run R on 
this windows machine, so that I can call it from somewhere else?

Antje
Antje
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Nobody can help with this question (or tell me where I can find help) ?

Antje schrieb:
Uwe Ligges
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Antje wrote:
Call from somewhere else is somewhat unspecific. Anyway, there are 
several ways:
- Work using a Remote Desktop Connection (as I do for maintaining the 
CRAN windows builder, for example).
- Install some secure shell server and work command line based.
- Install some framework that allows to start processes on that machine 
as a node in a computer cluster (such as mpi) - this is not that easy on 
Windows and you always need a lucky combination of libraries (mpi/Rmpi 
and so on) that work together.

Uwe Ligges
Rowe, Brian Lee Yung (Portfolio Analytics)
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Did you try the forums on Knime? That might be a better bet.


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Nobody can help with this question (or tell me where I can find help) ?

Antje schrieb:
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Greg Snow
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I, for one, don't fully understand the question, and while there are many on this list that are much smarter than I am, they may also have trouble understanding the question.

At first glance it looks like you are asking if R runs on Windows XP (the answer is yes, but this seems to simple to be the real question).

Are you asking about knime?  Then you should ask on a forum about knime.

If you are asking about ways to run R as a server on a windows machine, then look at the nws package.  It takes a bit of setting up (including installing python and some addons to that, starting a server, etc.), but may do what you want.  I have no idea if it interacts with knime at all.

If this does not help, then try rephrasing the question or asking somewhere where there are more knime users,
Bio7
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Yes you can run the Rserve application on a remote computer in e.g network
and then you can connect
it from your Desktop computer. I've done this already with a remote Linux
computer (Rserve is running
very stable on a Linux computer).
For example i clustered an R,G,B image on a linux computer with R to make
use of the additional RAM
without to load my Desktop application (The remote connection will be a new
feature in the next release of my application). 
If the mentioned application uses Rserve and can be configured with an ip
adress etc. it should be
easily possible. 
Please read the information how to config Rserve(and read the security info
carefully!) on the Rserve website:

http://www.rforge.net/Rserve/ http://www.rforge.net/Rserve/ 

->Documentation

I hope this information helps!

Best regards

Marcel
Antje
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I might have formulated my question a bit misleading.

 >> If you are asking about ways to run R as a server on a windows machine,

Yes, that's exactly what I was asking for.
So, I'll check out this nws package as well as the RServe.

Of course, I might ask Knime people as well but my question not primarily bound 
to this software.

Thanks a lot for all answers!

Antje




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