There is also Rstudio that can be run either in server mode, or over an X windows connection. It will run an embedded instance of R and provides a window for graphics, a console, and a widow for editing. It's another decent alternative.
Greg Finak Sent from my iPhone On 2011-07-15, at 12:54 PM, "Simon Urbanek" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
