vaneet wrote:
So just so I understand properly, if there are multiple users connecting to
this remote linux machine in which I installed R and lets just say they all
have Windows machines. To view plots they would all need to have an SSH
client and an X server installed on their local machine to do this?
Yes, with X11-forwarding enabled when the SSH connection is established.
Usually this would not be the default.
You said that X11 is the default graphic device on Linux, isn't there some way
of using X11 in R to show the plot while logged in to the remote linux
machine?
Yes, by running an X11 server on the Windows machine, as others have
suggested.
In some situations, I have just left open a GUI SFTP client to some
directory where my R plots get generated. After my script is done, I
then simply double-click the graphics file to open it.
Perhaps there is some image or PDF viewer out there that can load a
remote file, and then 'watch' it so that when it changes, it reloads
automatically. I suppose that's another option. I know programs exist
that can do this when the file is local.
Perhaps Dropbox could be used as a solution.
Running the X server is going to be the easiest in my opinion, though.
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