Re: Using tramp to run R source code blocks on remote server

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:

>         I am trying to run R source code blocks on a remote server (defined in my ~/.ssh/config as
>         cesp).
>        
>         I am facing several problems.
>        
>         1.  The following sample block, when used with ":results value" does not give any results.
>        
>         #+NAME: level1
>         #+begin_src R :results value :exports results :colnames yes :hline yes :session cesp :dir /cesp:
>         /home/vikas/
>         c(1:5)
>         #+end_src
>        
>         I get the following message:
>        
>         tramp-flush-directory-property: Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil
>

You might also want to ping Michael Albinus on the tramp mailing list about
this.

--
Nick

>     I think this is an issue with having different version of ESS on your local and remote systems.
>    
>     In particular, newer and older versions of `.ess.eval' have different arguments. You can check this
>     by running `args(.ess.eval)' in the session of your remote server and in a session on your local
>     system.
>    
>     In any case, I'd suggest asking on ess-help@r-project.org for help in fixing this.
>
> Thanks for this. I did not think that ess on the remote system would be needed at all. I just want
> emacs+ess on my system to use R on the remote system.
>
> Having to maintain version compatibility between every machine, and across multiple users, is an
> impossible situation.
>
> But let me see what folks at ess-help have to say.
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Vikas