> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Simon > Urbanek > Sent: July-15-11 12:54 PM > To: Robert Chatfield > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R-Gui with remote execution? > > > 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.
Not sure if this is all the support you were referring to, but I use Carbon Emacs from http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html and can invoke e.g. X11() and plot to the X11 device (Mac OS X 10.6.7). Steve McKinney > > 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
