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The paper shows the efficient .NET-based system of the remote access for statistical computing methods provided by the R project functionality. The system can be integrated with thick or thin client applications using Windows Communication Foundation. In the batch mode a task (represented by a packet bundle of R scripts and input data files) is sent to the communication server (the web application hosted by the Internet Information Services) and then placed in a queue hosted by MSMQ. The computing server (hosted by Windows Service) executes the task using R.exe module and sends back the response (packet bundle of stdout content, output data files and graph ones). The middle layer MSMQ supports asynchronic handling of long running tasks. The system supports online mode – the remote interactive R session. The horizontal system scalability is enabled by multiplying computation servers spanned over network nodes.
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Augustyn, D.R., Warchał, Ł. (2009). ServeR: .NET-Based Infrastructure for Remote Services of Statistical Computing with R-Project. In: Kwiecień, A., Gaj, P., Stera, P. (eds) Computer Networks. CN 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02671-3_23
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