machine: machine

In snoweye/pbdRPC: Programming with Big Data -- Remote Procedure Call

Description

Remote machine configuration settings.

Usage

machine(hostname, user, exec.type = .pbd_env$RPC.LI$exec.type,
  args = .pbd_env$RPC.LI$args, pport = .pbd_env$RPC.LI$pport,
  priv.key = .pbd_env$RPC.LI$priv.key,
  priv.key.ppk = .pbd_env$RPC.LI$priv.key.ppk)

Arguments

hostname	the server ip or host name.
user	user id for logging to the server. If none is supplied, then the system user name will be used instead.
exec.type	either "ssh" or "plink" in character. Windows will force to use "plink".
args	further arguments to "ssh" or "plink" for connecting to the server in addition to port, user id, and host name.
pport	ssh port opened on the server.
priv.key, priv.key.ppk	location of the private key for user authentication, the file will be checked first then -i priv.key will be added to args when the file exists. priv.key.ppk is only used when plink is called.

Value

An object of class machine.

Examples

## Not run: 
# note: not my actual aws url
myaws <- machine("ec2-1-2-3-4.compute-1.amazonaws.com", user="my_aws_username")

# if you don't specify 'user', we use your host machine's user name
myvm <- machine("192.168.1.10")

## End(Not run)

snoweye/pbdRPC documentation built on May 30, 2019, 6:06 a.m.