Re: [Rd] running R with users home dirs on a shared filesystems

2019-12-13 Thread Cook, Malcolm
ulti-process access. Cheers, Malcolm From: R-devel On Behalf Of Simon Urbanek Sent: Friday, December 13, 2019 12:52 PM To: lejeczek Cc: r-devel Subject: Re: [Rd] running R with users home dirs on a shared filesystems CAUTION: This email was received from an External Source User home is n

Re: [Rd] running R with users home dirs on a shared filesystems

2019-12-13 Thread Simon Urbanek
User home is not used by R directly, so it is really up to whatever package/code may be using user home. In our setup we have all machines using NFS mounted homes for years. From experience the only thing to watch for are packages that use their own cache directories in $HOME instead of tempdir(

[Rd] running R with users home dirs on a shared filesystems

2019-12-13 Thread lejeczek via R-devel
Hi guys, I want to ask devel for who knows better - having multiple nodes serving users home dirs off the same shared network filesystem : are there any precautions or must-dos & must-donts in order to assure healthy and efficient parallel Rs running simultaneously - and I don't mean obvious stuff