[R] R via ssh login on OS X?

[Paul Roebuck]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, James Howison wrote:

> I have an ssh only login to a G5 on which I am hoping to run some
> analyses.  The situation is complicated by the fact that the computer's
> owner is away for the summer (and thus also only has shell login).
>
> R is installed and there is a symlink to /usr/local/bin/R but when I
> try to launch it I get:
>
> [jhowison at euro]$ R
> kCGErrorRangeCheck : Window Server communications from outside of
> session allowed for root and console user only
> INIT_Processeses(), could not establish the default connection to the
> WindowServer.Abort trap
>
> I though, ah ha, I need to tell it not to use the GUI but to no avail:
>
> [jhowison at euro]$ R --gui=none
> kCGErrorRangeCheck : Window Server communications from outside of
> session allowed for root and console user only
> INIT_Processeses(), could not establish the default connection to the
> WindowServer.Abort trap
>
> I'm embarrassed to say that I'm writing to the list without having the
> latest version installed---because I can't install it at the moment.  I
> am using R 1.8.1.  I have tried to compile the latest from source but
> there is no F77 compiler. I thought I'd ask around before going down
> the "put local dependencies in the home folder" to compile this route
> (any hints on doing that would be great though) ...
>
> Can other people get R command-line to work with logged in remotely via
> ssh?  Any hints?
> Is this something that is fixed in more recent versions?
>
> I think I can see one other route:  getting the computer's owner to
> install fink and their version remotely ... but I'm open to all "don't
> bother the professor when he's on holiday" options ...

I suffered similarly attempting to run R via CGI; I never found
a workaround for remote access (also running 1.8.1 with Panther).
Seemed to have something to do with running an application requiring
access to graphics but not being the user currently "owning" the dock.
I did not determine if the limitation was due to R implementation or
operating system software.

F77 not necessary; use 'f2c' instead. But don't bother with Fink since
it's not necessary to build it. No 'sudo' access either? Is the user
still logged in (screenlocked) or are you just lacking administrative
access?

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