client: Client Launcher

In remoter: Remote R: Control a Remote R Session from a Local One

Description

Connect to a remote server (launch the client).

Usage

client(addr = "localhost", port = 55555, password = NULL,
  prompt = "remoter", timer = FALSE)

Arguments

addr	The remote host/address/endpoint.
port	The port (number) that will be used for communication between the client and server. The port value for the client and server must agree.
password	An initial password to pass to the server. If the server is not accepting passwords, then this argument is ignored. If the initial pasword is incorrect, then assuming the server's maxretry>1, then you will be interactively asked to enter the password.
prompt	The prompt to use to delineate the client from the normal R REPL.
timer	Logical; should the "performance prompt", which shows timing statistics after every command, be used?

Details

The port values between the client and server must agree. If they do not, this can cause the client to hang. The client is a specialized REPL that intercepts commands sent through the R interpreter. These commands are then sent from the client to and evaluated on the server. The client communicates over ZeroMQ with the server using a REQ/REP pattern. Both commands (from client to server) and returns (from server to client) are handled in this way.

To shut down the server and the client, see exit().

Value

Returns TRUE invisibly on successful exit.

remoter documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:12 a.m.