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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jul 15, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Steven McKinney wrote:

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Simon
>> Urbanek
>> Sent: July-15-11 12:54 PM
>> To: Robert Chatfield
>> Cc: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R-Gui with remote execution?
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>> On Jul 15, 2011, at 3:20 PM, Robert Chatfield wrote:
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>>> 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.
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> Not sure if this is all the support you were referring 
> to, but I use Carbon Emacs from
> http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html
> and can invoke e.g. X11() and plot to the X11 device
> (Mac OS X 10.6.7).
> 

No. I was talking about the inverse - i.e. emacs that can run on X11 so you can tunnel it through SSH since Bob will be running emacs on the remote machine, not the local one. You can't tunnel Cocoa/Carbon so Carbon Emacs is useless for that purpose (unless it's compiled with X11 support besides Carbon...).

Cheers,
Simon


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>> 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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