R help - Jan 2004 - Running R remotely in Windows Environment? - Xemacs and ssh

Hi,

While we are on the topic of "Running R remotely in Windows
Environment"
maybe someone could help with the following specific problem. I run R on
a Linux box from my WindowsXP laptop. I do so via Exceed, which for some
reasons is inconvenient for me.
As an alternative I tried to ssh into the linux machine and then run R.
This worked fine from Cygwin's bash window, but not from under XEmacs
(native Windows port). After starting ssh Xemacs complained:
"Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a
terminal"
and didn't show the prompt. Did anyone figure out how to remotely run R
from under (X)Emacs on Windows using ssh?

Thanks,
Vadim

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:17:48PM -0800, Vadim Ogranovich
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While we are on the topic of "Running R remotely in Windows
Environment"
> maybe someone could help with the following specific problem. I run R on
> a Linux box from my WindowsXP laptop. I do so via Exceed, which for some
> reasons is inconvenient for me.
> As an alternative I tried to ssh into the linux machine and then run R.
> This worked fine from Cygwin's bash window, but not from under XEmacs
> (native Windows port). After starting ssh Xemacs complained:
> "Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a
terminal"
> and didn't show the prompt. Did anyone figure out how to remotely run R
> from under (X)Emacs on Windows using ssh?
Cygwin can now run an X11 server for you, and it can do it such that the
normal win2k/xp/... window manager controls things -- you need a special
switch the name of which I cannot recall right now (and the windoze system
is at work). Look into the supplied startxin.{bat,sh} which has the line
commented.

So with X11 running on windows machine, you can get via 'ssh -X host'
and
get any X11-compliant app back to your windows system.  

Hth, Dirk

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