start.rcloud {rcloud.support}

R Documentation

Functions to setup RCloud sessions

Description

configure.rcloud configure R session to be used as a server instance for RCloud. It is typically executed in Rserve as part of the initialization process.

start.rcloud initialized client session, typically as part of session.init() executed by the RCloud client.

Usage

   configure.rcloud()
   start.rcloud(username="", ...)

Details

configure.rcloud respects several environment variables that define the location of the RCloud directories:

ROOT defines the root of the RCloud setup. It is mandatory.

CONFROOT defines the configuration directory, defaults to $ROOT/code

DATAROOT defines the data directory, defaults to $ROOT/data

Other noteworthy directories:

$ROOT/tmp - temporary directory for the sessions

$DATAROOT/userfiles - pre-user files

$DATAROOT/history - history

Value

Both functions return TRUE

Author(s)

Simon Urbanek, Carlos Scheidegger

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