[R] Running R on a Local Area Network

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

You should try mapping your remote files to a local drive. It's absolutely
normal to do so.  I have no idea why this is not working, as all the I/O
is done via normal Windows API calls.  Once mapped it certainly works:
our lab has R on the N: drive, which is served from a remote Linux Samba
server.

By the way, I am sure you are not trying to run R remotely: R is running
on the local machine but using files served from a remote machine without
being mounted.  This is equivalent to expecting server:/usr/local/bin/R
syntax to work on a Unix box (which it will not).

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Henri Tourneur wrote:

> A couple of months ago I downloaded R 1.6.0's binary for Windows, which I have
> since been using without any particular problem, that is  on one machine running
> Windows 98.
>
> Last week I set up a local network and have since tried to use R remotely, i.e.
> R is installed on the previous machine and nowhere else.  On the client's side,
> the GUI opens correctly and allows me to do simple computations such as
> x<-1:20
> y<-1:20
> plot(x,y)
>
> So far, so good. Problem  is with packages which I don't seem to be able to
> access on the server (locally, I repeat, this works fine)
>
> i.e. when I try library()
> I get
>
> no packages found
> Warning message:
> libraries `//ServerComputer/c/Program Files/R/rw1060/library',
> `//SERVERCOMPUTER/C/PROGRA~1/R/RW1060/library' contain no packages in: library()
>
> Does that ring any bell to one of you  ?  Am I trying to do something R was
> never designed to do in the first place ?
>
>
> Henri
>
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