Hi Ramon, I've been interested in responses to your question. I have what I think is a similar issue - I have a very large simulation script and would like to be able to modularize it by having a main script that calls lots of subscripts - but I haven't done that yet because the only way I could think to do it was to call a subscript, have it run, save the objects from the subscript, and then call those objects back into the main script, which seems like a very slow and onerous way to do it.
Would Rserve do what I'm looking for? On 4/7/07, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > The "clients.txt" file of the latest Rserve package, by Simon Urbanek, > says, regarding its R client, > > "(...) a simple R client, i.e. it allows you to connect to Rserve from > R itself. It is very simple and limited, because Rserve was not > primarily meant for R-to-R communication (there are better ways to do > that), but it is useful for quick interactive connection to an Rserve > farm." > > Which are those better ways to do it? I am thinking about using Rserve > to have an R process send jobs to a bunch of Rserves in different > machines. It is like what we could do with Rmpi (or pvm), but without > the MPI layer. Therefore, presumably it'd be easier to deal with > network problems, machine's failures, using checkpoints, etc. (i.e., > to try to get better fault tolerance). > > It seems that Rserve would provide the basic infrastructure for doing > that and saves me from reinventing the wheel of using sockets, etc, > directly from R. > > However, Simon's comment about better ways of R-to-R communication > made me wonder if this idea really makes sense. What is the catch? > Have other people tried similar approaches? > > Thanks, > > R. > > -- > Ramon Diaz-Uriarte > Statistical Computing Team > Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme > Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO) > http://ligarto.org/rdiaz > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Matthew C Keller Postdoctoral Fellow Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
