[ESS] remote R
Vitalie Spinu
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Fri Mar 6 16:40:44 CET 2015
>>> Andreas Leha on Fri, 6 Mar 2015 09:27:12 +0000 wrote:
> Hi,
> I have two questions about connecting to a remote R session.
> (1) What is the state of connecting to a remote R session running in
> tmux/screen?
Still no special support for screen or tmux.
> I guess this is due to my setup somewhere, but before I start
> digging: Is that something that I can get rid off by changing
> settings on my end? Is anyone using ess/remote/tmux/R successfully?
I have no experience. Cannot comment.
> (b) large regions
> The whole thing works better if I use screen instead of tmux. But there
> I have issues when submitting larger regions, where R would suddenly
> complains about 'unexpected symbol' while it accepts the code when I send
> in smaller chunks.
> Is there a solution to that? (Other than the work around of not sending
> large regions....)
Yeh. I have noticed these years ago and have no idea of why this is
happening. It's something very low level (no ESS specific) which I
couldn't debug or even find a reproducible example.
> (2) Different R version remote
> As I understand it, the 'preferred' way to start remote R is to
Yeh. Not ideal for complex work, but what can we do.
> But then, how do I start R-devel, e.g., on the remote machine?
Something along the following lines:
(defun R-dev-remote ()
(interactive)
(let ((inferior-R-program-name "R-dev"))
(R)))
Vitalie
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