[R] question about using a remote system

[Erin Hodgess]

My goal is for a user to sit down at a Linux laptop, get to an Rcmdr
type screen, submit jobs on a remote system and then get the results
back in R.

We will assume that the user is naive, and the only thing he/she can
do is get to the Rcmdr screen.

The Rcmdr plugin will have a "submit jobs" menu.  The user presses
that option, and gets results, without having to know the "underside".

thanks,
Erin

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Mark Wardle <mark at wardle.org> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Do you need an interactive session at the remote machine, or are you
> simply wanting to run a pre-written script?
>
> If the latter, then you can ask ssh to execute a remote command, which
> conceivably could be "R CMD xxxxx"
>
> If you explain exactly why and what you are trying to do, then perhaps
> there's a better solution....
>
> bw
>
> Mark
>
> 2009/5/28 Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess at gmail.com>:
>> Dear R People:
>>
>> I would like to set up a plug-in for Rcmdr to do the following:
>>
>> I would start on a Linux laptop.  Then I would log into another
>> outside system and run a some commands.
>>
>> Now, when I tried to do
>> system("ssh erin at xxx.edu")
>> password xxxxxx
>>
>> It goes to the remote system.  how do I continue to issue commands
>> from the Linux laptop please?
>>
>> (hope this makes sense)
>>
>> thanks,
>> Erin
>>
>>
>> --
>> Erin Hodgess
>> Associate Professor
>> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
>> University of Houston - Downtown
>> mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Mark Wardle
> Specialist registrar, Neurology
> Cardiff, UK
>



-- 
Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com