From simon.urbanek at r-project.org  Mon Oct 17 16:43:02 2005
From: simon.urbanek at r-project.org (Simon Urbanek)
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:43:02 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Control R from another program (written in Delphi)
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Rainer,

On Oct 17, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Rainer M. Krug wrote:

> At the moment I am using the (D)COM interface but as I would like  
> to run R on a Linux Cluster, thits is not an option any more.
> What is the easiest way of copntrolluing R over the network? I  
> thought  about sockets, but I am a little bit stuck.

We have been using snow+Rpvm very successfully. There are tons of  
other approaches and tools as well (mosix, rmpi, snowFT, ...). I  
would start with snow, because it is very flexible and even offers  
socket-only solution when necessary.

Cheers,
Simon



[Rd] Control R from another program (written in Delphi)
Simon Urbanek