[R-gui] client-server R over sockets

Philippe Grosjean phgrosjean at sciviews.org
Tue Apr 15 11:21:17 CEST 2008


Take a look at Rserve or svSocket (in SciViews bundle). You may be happy 
with one of those.
Best,

Philippe Grosjean

George Ostrouchov wrote:
> Is there an R gui that can provide a client-server interface to R over 
> sockets including X11 forwarding from the server?
> 
> Normally under unix this can be effectively done with ssh -X to the 
> server and running R inside an xterm. But I am running R on a massively 
> parallel computer where only a reduced Linux is present so ssh is not 
> possible. It is however possible to communicate over sockets.
> 
> Thanks,
> George
>



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