You have probably considered this and it's not an option, but just in case it is, I suspect you could buy a dual Xeon machine with 4 GB RAM and run Linux + Samba etc for far less than the license fees for the Windows Server OS and S+ components. (Probably a whole cluster, in fact!) Then users could use Cygwin's X server or Xvnc on their Windows desktops to run things like R on it. The setup takes a little time, but ongoing maintenance requirements are very low.
Reid Huntsinger -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of roger bos Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 10:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [R] client-server setup for R Maybe I didn't state my question as well as I should have. First of all, this is a windows environment. I currently run R on my desktop and I also have a server that I use that the connect to using remote desktop. Each machine has 4GB of memory and is a P4. I run R on my machine and on the server so I can have two programs running at once. Other people in the company don't have as much memory as I do and have older machines, so they may have trouble running R on their desktop. And two people can't remote desktop into the server at the same time. So my restated question is, how do I share my server with other useRs? If this is more of an IT question than an R question, I apologize, but it seems that S+ have a server version where clients connect from their desktop and submit jobs and I was wonder is there is an R version. On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:47:53 -0500, Huntsinger, Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is running R directly on the server machine and displaying via X or Xvnc an > option? > > Reid Huntsinger > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of roger bos > Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 9:28 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [R] client-server setup for R > > I am currently the only use-R at my company, but they are considering > buy a more powerful server and letting multiple people use it. They > asked me if R supports client-server setups. I know S+ has a server > version that does that. I didn't find anything about that on CRAN, > but hopefully someone can correct me. > > I did see some stuff about R web servers > (http://franklin.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu/R.web.servers/ ) > and that looked very interesting, but I don't know which one is best > and I don't want to spend all my time in HTML programming to make > front ends of all the users. If I have no choice but to go the web > server route, which one is the most mature? > > If I can't show them a pluasible solution, IT will make use buy S+ > server and I will have to modify all my code to make it work. I > really enjoy working in R. > > Thanks, > > Roger J. Bos > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachment...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
