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1. 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.
   
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2. When prompted to select a CRAN mirror, select a location near you.
   
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3. Note the location to which the package has been downloaded.
    
4. Unzip the Rserve package ("Extract all files."). Explore it, It has folder named ‘Rserve’.
   
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5. 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
   
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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
 
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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.
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Launching and Running Rserve
 
1. Type Below command to launch Rserve from within R
         library(Rserve)
         Rserve()
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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

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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.
 
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Running Rserve from the R console on MAC OSX 
 

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1. To Install Rserve navigate to https://rforge.net/Rserve/files/ and download Rserve snapshot [Rserve_1.8-4.tar.gz 486KB].
    
2. 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

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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
 

1. Execute below command to start R with Rserve package:
   R CMD Rserve

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