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To install and launch R and Rserve, follow the below step of instructions for your Operating System.
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Installing R on Windows OS
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The Windows version of Rserve supports only one connection at a time. Any subsequent connections to the same Rserve share the same working directory and data space. In order to have multiple users share a single R instance, you should consider running Rserve on Linux or OS X platforms. These platforms don't have the single connection limitation. You can find more information in this link: https://rforge.net/Rserve/doc.html |
Downloading the Installation Package for Windows
1. Go to http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base and download the current version of R for Windows. [R-3.2.2-win.exe [62.5 MB]]
At the time of documentation, current version available is: R - 3.2.2
2. Run the downloaded executable to install the R package.
3. Open the R console window— by choosing R > Rx64 3.2.2 from the Start menu.
Enter 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface for help. Type 'demo()' for some demos and 'q()' to quit R.
Installing Rserve
- In the R console, type command:
install.packages("Rserve").
- Windows will prompt for permission to create folder in R installation directory for packages download. Select Yes.
- When prompted to select a CRAN mirror, select a location near you.
- Note the location to which the package has been downloaded.
- Unzip the Rserve package ("Extract all files."). Explore it, It has folder named ‘Rserve’.
- Copy- Paste the Rserve directory to Path- containing R.dll file.
For example , R.dll file location - C:\Program Files\R\R-3.2.2\bin\x64
Launching and Running Rserve
Steps to run Rserve –
1. First open an R console window—for example, by choosing R > Rx64 3.2.2 from the Start menu,
2. To run Rserve from the R Console on a Windows computer, enter the following 4 commands
setwd("C:/Program Files/R/R-3.2.2/bin/x64")
library(Rserve)
Rserve()
Rserve(args = "--vanilla --RS-enable-remote")
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Installing R on Ubuntu OS
Downloading the Installation Package
1. Open a new Terminal window and run the below command to download latest version of R and Rserve:
sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev r-cran-rserve
2. Once the installation process is complete, open R from Ubuntu Finder and it opens in a terminal. You can also type sudo R in a terminal to start up R in Ubuntu.
Launching and Running Rserve
1. Type Below command to launch Rserve from within R
library(Rserve)
Rserve()
Once Rserve is successfully started, you can see the below notification that Rserve started in daemon mode.
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Installing R on Mac OS X
Downloading the Installation Package
- Navigate to https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/ and download the current version of R for Mac. [R-3.2.2.pkg [69 MB] at the time of documenting this article].
- Double click on this file and install R.
Launch R in Mac OSX:
- Once you have installed R, open a command line to launch R. Type R and you can see the R version followed by the R prompt which accepts R commands. See below screenshot of R version 3.2.2 installed on OSX 10.8.5
- One more way to open a minimal GUI for R in OSX, is to type in R.app in the Spotlight global search that brings up the R application. To open Spotlight, click the magnifying glass icon in the upper-right corner of the menu bar and enter R.app
Enter 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface for help. Type 'demo()' for some demos and 'q()' to quit R.
Running Rserve from the R console on MAC OSX
- To Install Rserve navigate to https://rforge.net/Rserve/files/ and download Rserve snapshot [Rserve_1.8-4.tar.gz 486KB].
- With MAC OSX, you would need to set the working directory for R using the setwd command, followed by the library(Rserve) and Rserve(args = "--no-save") commands.
setwd("/Users/tariq/R/R-3.2.2/bin/x64")
library(Rserve)
Rserve(args = "--no-save")
Installing Rserve and using a command line to open Rserve:
- To Install Rserve navigate to https://rforge.net/Rserve/files/ and download Rserve snapshot [Rserve_1.8-4.tar.gz 486KB].
- Open a terminal window and navigate to the directory containing the downloaded Rserve file. Type below command to install Rserve package.
R CMD INSTALL <RServe FileName>
Eg. R CMD INSTALL Rserve_1.8-4.tar.gz
Launching and Running Rserve from command line:
Rserve is a stand-alone program, so it can be started directly as well. If you installed Rserve from a source package (on unix), type: R CMD Rserve
- Execute below command to start R with Rserve package:
R CMD Rserve