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 > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
