Sachin, I apologize if I'm over-simplifying your question. I mostly run R on an Ubuntu server via a Windows laptop. I log in to the remote server via SSH (via PuTTY on Windows), and then open an interactive R session through the usual ways (typing 'R' at the Linux command line). When creating figures, I'll usually just output the figures to pdfs, via pdf(). However, if I need a more interactive experience with the figures, I'll ask PuTTY to initiate 'X11 forwarding', which, on Windows, also requires an X server, such as Xming. This causes plots to appear in new windows just like you were running R on your local machine.
If you are interested in running non-interactive batch R scripts, reference the following: http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/BATCH.html . Another note on running R over SSH: if you lose your SSH connection, the R process will stop. I get around this by using the 'screen' command in Linux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen). See man screen for details. While 'screen' does many things, relevant to this thread it creates new remote terminals that persist after SSH disconnects. After SSHing into my server, I type 'screen' and [return], then 'R'. R starts up and I start the analysis. I can manually 'detach' the screen by hitting the 'control' and 'a' keys together, and then hitting the 'd' key. The R process (and any other processes started in that screen session) will continue to run. One can start many screens. Typing 'screen -ls' shows the currently running screens. If only one screen is running, typing 'screen -r' will attach that screen, and one can continue on one's analysis in R. If multiple screen sessions are open, one will need to specify the screen name after the 'screen -r' command. Sometimes after an abrupt disconnect, the screen will remain attached, even though the SSH connection is lost. To get back to the screen session, one must first 'detach' and then 're-attach' the screen by typing 'screen -dr'. Let me know if you have more specific questions. Cheers, Jeremy Jeremy Hetzel Boston University -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Running-R-on-a-server-tp2967748p2991084.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
