Hi Kasper, You read my mind! Yes, I am trying to run and R session on a mac workstation in my office from my mac laptop at home (and has you probably guessed, this is to analyze microarrays from home).
I could do what you suggested, the only problem is that you can¹t channel plots generated from the remote computer on your local machine (well, I can¹t!). While, if you run an emacs session from a local X11 server (my Mac laptop) and inititate and R process on the remote machine (onto my mac workstation in my lab), it¹s exactly like working directly on the workstation. We have several Unix clusters and this is how we interact with them. So, I did compile a X11 version of Gnu emacs [following these recomandation http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/01/building_emacs22_on_mac_os_x.html ] and I can channel it through my internet connection from X11. It¹s pretty fast and seems to be pretty stable (so far) and as I said it¹s [almost] exactly like working with Carbon Emacs on the workstation (I can¹t get my alt key remapped to meta-). For you guys wondering how to channel X11 applications from a local Mac (can be a Mac but it can be any machine running an X11 server) to your remote Mac here is a couple of very informative links: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/tools/runningx11.html http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2004/qa1383.html Thanks guys and sorry for the out of subject post. Marco On 11/28/07 12:17 PM, "Kasper Daniel Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marco: depending on what you want to do, there may be other ways to do it. If > you want to run R for example, there is a "ess-remote_ command that allows you > to use a remote server for the R process while still keeping everything in > your local Emacs. You can also do a > M-x shell > that opens up a shell within emacs, then ssh from that shell into your server > and now you have a shell access within Emacs. This is essentially what > ess-remote mentioned above does for R - depending on what you are doing there > may be a similar solution. > > Having said all of that, sometimes you just want to open e remote Emacs > session. > > I would suggest perhaps giving us a detailed description of what you are > trying to accomplish. > > Kasper > > On Nov 28, 2007 10:04 AM, David Reitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 28 Nov 2007, at 17:58, Marco Blanchette wrote: >>> > >>> > An obvious typo... I meant to write running processes from my laptop >>> > on my >>> > workstation under emacs... I would prefer not to use window server >>> > as they >>> > are typically very slow to respond and not friendly at all. >> >> So you want to run Emacs as a process on one machine, but use it from >> the other, right? >> And the typo was (excuse me if I'm being ignorant, it's not obvious to >> me) that one of the machines is not a Mac? >> >>> > A colleague of mine sent me the following link to build an X11 emacs: >>> > >>> http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/01/building_emacs22_on_mac_os_x.html >> >> >> Sure, that would work - even though it wouldn't be Carbon Emacs and >> you would again be using a window server remotely ( i.e. X11) -- which >> isn't that slow after all, over a local connection. >> >> Your other message, about the large files, made it clear to me. X11 or >> the Terminal are your best bet. >> >> >> >> >> -- Marco Blanchette, Ph.D. Assistant Investigator Stowers Institute for Medical Research 1000 East 50th St. Kansas City, MO 64110 Tel: 816-926-4071 Cell: 816-726-8419 Fax: 816-926-2018 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Carbon Emacs" group mailing list. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/carbon-emacs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
