CODEWITHSUNDEEP
rrstudio
user5957401
user5957401

Reputation: 228

Using RStudio with R backend on cluster via SSH

I have access to (not authority over) a computing cluster which has R installed. Is there a way for me to use R-Studio on my local computer -- but have the code running on the cluster via SSH?

To clarify -- No I don't really have non-SSH access, no I can't install R-Studio (server or desktop) on the cluster.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1785

Answers (1)

russellpierce
russellpierce

Reputation: 4711

In line with the hackish options @hrbrmstr mentioned...

If your aim is to run mostly non-interactive code, then you can probably establish an n-node parallel::makePSOCKcluster() on the remote machines and run each of your commands via parallel like commands. Similarly, you could use package::svSocket, see this neat demo on YouTube for more details than fit in a reasonable answer.

But, given that you said RStudio, I suspect you are thinking of interactive use, and the above would be doable (but painful). Nothing I know of will let you just pretend that the remote machine is the local machine (which is a pity to be sure). However you might be able to hack something together, with sink() etc and a server and client side loop, e.g. How to connect two computers using R?.

Upvotes: 1

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