[ESS] [R] getting ess/emacs to link with a remote instance of R
Mark W Kimpel
mkimpel at iupui.edu
Tue Mar 20 22:50:35 CET 2007
Seth,
Thank you for your response, every worked exactly as you described it,
even the fact that ?help does not work very well with a remote session.
I will probably open up a separate emacs window with a local R process
to access help functions.
I didn't know about the ess-help, I had checked out emacs-help but,
looking at an archive, it looked like it had very little activity over
the past two years. Maybe I was mistaken?
Thanks,
Mark
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Seth Falcon wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> [I've cc'd the ess-help list and any further discussion should probably
> happen there with r-help removed]
>
> Mark W Kimpel <mkimpel at iupui.edu> writes:
>> I am running ess/emacs on Linux and have an R instance running on a
>> remote Unix server. I would like to be able to direct input from my ess
>> buffer to R (hope I am using the right lingo, I am new to emacs).
>>
>> The ess manual contains a section describing how to do just that, but a
>> prerequisite is to install a lisp file ssh.el , which can be found at
>> ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/emacs-lisp/ssh .
>
> In my experience, ssh.el doesn't do anything all that great. Instead
> I would try:
>
> 1. Start a shell inside Emacs using 'M-x shell'. In this shell, ssh
> to your remote host and start R.
>
> 2. In the remote R session do: 'M-x ess-remote'. At the Emacs
> mini-buffer prompt type 'r'.
>
> 3. In a buffer containing R code, you should be able to send code to
> the remote session as usual (choose the shell buffer when
> prompted).
>
> Note:
>
> * C-c C-c will kill your ssh session (and R). IOW, you can't easily
> interrupt an R process running remotely.
>
> * I have never had success getting help to work via ESS when running
> R remotely. YMMV.
>
> * You may find that sending commands to the remote session without
> echoing is much faster. So you might try C-u C-c C-r to send a
> region.
>
>
> + seth
>
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