[R] client-server setup for R

[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

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[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 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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