[R] R running as a server on windows?

[Uwe Ligges]

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


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



>> Antje
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