[R-SIG-Mac] R-Gui with remote execution?

[Finak, Greg]

There is also Rstudio that can be run either in server mode, or over an X windows connection. It will run an embedded instance of R and provides a window for graphics, a console, and a widow for editing. It's another decent alternative.

Greg Finak

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On 2011-07-15, at 12:54 PM, "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 15, 2011, at 3:20 PM, Robert Chatfield wrote:
> 
>> We have three Macs, one with considerably more storage and 
>> processor power.  Storage requirements are probably most
>> important to us.
>> 
>> Is there a way to run R-Gui on one mac but have the
>> execution on a remote mac?  (I know that voluminous
>> graphics are probably best transmitted using pdf files or
>> the like.)
>> 
> 
> Currently, no. The closest you can get is to use Remote Desktop.
> 
> However, I have a situation here where we have very powerful Linux servers (hundreds of cores, TB of RAM) yet I want to use the convenience of my Mac and Quartz. To achieve that I'm working on a Mac GUI that can connect to any remote instance of R running on an arbitrary machine. The idea is that you need only a single stream (e.g. ssh) to talk to R and yet have console, graphics and everything on the Mac side. Another side-effect is that you can connect and disconnect without losing the session. The project (RemoteR) is far from complete (I still need to tie-in Quartz) but if anyone becomes excited it's available on RForge.net: http://svn.rforge.net/osx/trunk/RemoteR
> 
> 
>> If not, is there a favorite way to run remotely using X11
>> better than the paste-from-editor command-line interface?
>> 
> 
> I suppose most people use emacs + ESS so you don't need to copy/paste ;) -- I'm not sure whether Apple emacs supports X11, you may have to compile it from sources.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
>> I also use Vim-R myself, so there may be a way to exploit
>> vim.
>> 
>> (I've checked for messages on the subject for the last few
>> years.)
>> 
>> Running R version 2.10.1 on 10.6.7 locally and 10.5.8 remotely.
>> 
>> regards,  Bob Chatfield
>> NASA Ames Research Center
>> 
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