That's a shell/R script issue. I've come across it before, but I've no longer got access to any clusters of that form (yet :-).
Depending on the jobs, it's not clear to me that you want a truly interactive process on a subnode, but the idea is the same as the chicanery we used to have a remote R process. best, -tony On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:59:33 -0500, Liaw, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear R-help, > > Has anyone tried running R on a Beowulf-type cluster? I can get R to run in > batch (using R CMD BATCH) on a cluster, but am wondering if it is possible > to get an interactive R session on a compute node. Right now, if I run: > > beorun --nolocal R > > I just get the R start-up message and back to the shell prompt. If I try > > bpsh 0 R > > I can get R started (but the R prompt does not appear) and do computations, > but no access to an x11() device. I'd very much appreciate any pointer. > > Best, > Andy > > Andy Liaw, PhD > Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 > Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 > andy_liaw <at> merck.com 732-594-0820 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > -- best, -tony "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05). A.J. Rossini [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html