R help - Aug 2003 - Fwd: Re: Problem running RTERM via SSH on Windows/2000

rterm --ess --save 

works fine under both openssh and under putty SSH
clients.  Thanks!


--- Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:
> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:41:35 +0100 (BST)
> From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> To: Bruce Moore <bwmoore22 at yahoo.com>
> CC: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Problem running RTERM via SSH on
> Windows/2000
> 
> This is the documented behaviour for R when used
> non-interactively.
> Presumably your `SSH' (probably really openssh)
> isn't using terminals for 
> input and output.
> 
> You might like to try rterm --ess, a kludge for a
> similar problem in 
> NTemacs.  Or try a different ssh (a real Windows
> one, not one designed for 
> systems with ptys).
> 
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Bruce Moore wrote:
> 
> > I'm having problems getting RTERM to work via SSH.
> 
> > Whenever it has any type of problem, it abends
> instead
> > of issuing an error message and returning to the >
> > prompt.  Both "server" and client are Windows/2000
> > Professional at FP4.  SSH is via Cygwin on both
> sides.
> >  R is version is 1071.
> > 
> > RTERM runs fine when run in a BASH shell on the
> > "server," though it does not prompt for --save
> > --nosave or --vanilla.
> 
> It never does: no version of R prompts for those to
> my knowledge.
> 
> -- 
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====Bruce Moore