[R] Working with R from Remote desktop

Uwe Ligges
Tue, 05 May 2009 11:52:13 -0000

Madan Mohan wrote:
> Hi Friends,
> Kindly let me know whether is it possible to install R project in a Server
> (Remote) desktop, which can be accessed by many users by logging in with
> their credentials...

Just install it, that's it.

> Another concern is if i want to work with huge dataset (millions of
records)
> what should be the system configuration? (currently i am getting an error :
> Cannot allocate vector of size 16.7 Mb)

It depends on your definition of "huge". The error messsage just tells
you about the last (but not final, since R cannot know about that)
memory allocation, hence meaningless.
See ?Memory to get a point to start.

Uwe Ligges

>
> Regards,
> Madana