[R] Submit a R job to a server

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Have a look at Karim Chine's R/Biocep project:

  http://biocep-distrib.r-forge.r-project.org/

/henrik

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Moshe Olshansky<m_olshansky at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Deb,
>
> Based on your last note (and after briefly looking at Rserve) I believe that you should install R with all the packages you need on the server and then use it like you are using any workstation, i.e. log in to it and do whatever you need.
>
> Regards,
>
> Moshe.
>
> --- On Thu, 27/8/09, Debabrata Midya <Debabrata.Midya at commerce.nsw.gov.au> wrote:
>
>> From: Debabrata Midya <Debabrata.Midya at commerce.nsw.gov.au>
>> Subject: Re: [R] Submit a R job to a server
>> To: "Cedrick W. Johnson" <cedrick at cedrickjohnson.com>, m_olshansky at yahoo.com
>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>> Received: Thursday, 27 August, 2009, 1:48 PM
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Cedrick / Moshe,
>>
>> Thank you very much for such a quick response.
>>
>> My objective is to do the faster calculations by
>> submitting a R job from my desktop to this server.
>>
>> Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition is currently running on
>> this server.
>>
>> My objective is not only limited to access various
>> oracle tables from this server but also I like to
>> utilise this server for faster calculations and I like to
>> use R for this. So far, I did not install anything related
>> to R into this server.
>>
>> I have R installed on my desktop (Windows XP). I use
>> RODBC / ODBC products to access data from this server and I
>> use R / S-PLUS (installed on my desktop) to do the
>> analyses.
>>
>> Is there any way to submit R job from my desktop to
>> this server? How can I use this server to do my job
>> faster?
>>
>> Once again, thank you very much for the time you have
>> given.
>>
>>  I am looking forward for your reply.
>>
>>  Regards,
>>
>>  Deb
>>
>> >>> "Cedrick W. Johnson"
>> <cedrick at cedrickjohnson.com> 27/08/2009 12:41 pm
>> >>>
>> Good Morning Deb-
>>
>> It's unclear (to me at least) what you are trying to
>> do.. What is the
>> "server" running? Is it running RServe for which
>> you have a userid and
>> pwd or is it just a plain  "server" running
>> some OS?
>>
>> *IF* this is the case (RServe):
>> on the windows machine you will need to:
>>
>> install.packages("Rserve")
>> library(Rserve)
>> ?Rserve
>> --and optionally--
>> ?RSeval
>>
>> I *think* RSeval/Rserve *may* be what you're looking
>> for, but I am going
>> off just an assumption by what you meant regarding
>> "server"..
>>
>> Rserve can be used as a client and server on both platforms
>> (I
>> personally have had more success running the server portion
>> under linux,
>> with linux and java clients in which the clients are a
>> mixture of the
>> package's java access *and* R client access to the
>> rserver instance)
>>
>> More info on rserve at: http://www.rforge.net/Rserve
>>
>> HTH,
>> cedrick
>>
>>
>> Debabrata Midya wrote:
>> > Dear R users,
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> > I am Deb, Statistician at NSW Department of Commerce,
>> Sydney.
>> >
>> > I am using R 2.9.1 on Windows XP.
>> >
>> > May I request you to provide me information on the
>> following:
>> >
>> > 1. I have access to a server ( I have userid and pwd)
>> >
>> > 2. What are the packages I need to submit a job from
>> Windows XP to this server? Should I need to install any
>> package on this server before submitting a job?
>> >
>> > Once again, thank you very much for the time you have
>> given.
>> >
>> > I am looking forward for your reply.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Deb
>> >
>> >
>> >
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