pbdRPC

• Version: 0.1-1
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• Author: See section below.

A very light yet secure implementation for remote procedure calls with unified interface via ssh (OpenSSH) or plink/plink.exe (PuTTY).

See pbdRPC vignette for more details and applications.

Usage

library(pbdRPC)

### Alter login information as needed
rpcopt_set(user = "snoweye", hostname = "192.168.56.101")
rpc("whoami")

### Or

rpc("whoami", user = "snoweye", hostname = "192.168.56.101")

Features

• The above example is completely done in an interactive R session.
• The rpc() is unified interface. The call is equivalent to ssh snoweye@192.168.56.101 "whoami" in a Linux-like system and plink.exe snoweye@192.168.56.101 "whoami" in a windows system, provided that ssh and plink.exe are reachable through the environment variable, PATH.
• The default communications between the local R and the remote server (192.168.56.101 in this case) are encrypted and secure, by default using RSA version 2.
• Private and public paired key authentications are supported, i.e. login without password.
• Port forwarding is also supported for two way tunneling, both local -L and remote/reverse -R.

Installation

The package can be installed from the CRAN via the usual install.packages("pbdRPC"), or via the devtools package:

library(devtools)
install_github("RBigData/pbdRPC")

Citation

When mentioning the pbdRPC, please cite:

@MISC{pbdRPC2017,
  author = {Chen, W.-C},
  title = {{pbdRPC}: Programming with Big Data -- Remote Procedure Call},
  year = {2017},
  note = {{R} Package, URL https://cran.r-project.org/package=pbdRPC}
}

Authors

pbdRPC is authored and maintained by the pbdR core team:

• Wei-Chen Chen