How can I shut down Rserve gracefully?

Question

I have tried many options both in Mac and in Ubuntu. I read the Rserve documentation

http://rforge.net/Rserve/doc.html

and that for the Rse

Answer 1

Load Rserve and RSclient packages, then connect to the instances.

> library(Rserve)
> library(RSclient)

> Rserve(port = 6311, debug = FALSE)
> Rserve(port = 6312, debug = TRUE)

Starting Rserve...
 "C:\..\Rserve.exe" --RS-port 6311
Starting Rserve...
 "C:\..\Rserve_d.exe" --RS-port 6312 

> rsc <- RSconnect(port = 6311)
> rscd <- RSconnect(port = 6312)

Looks like they're running...

> system('tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq Rserve.exe"')
> system('tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq Rserve_d.exe"')

Image Name                     PID Session Name        Session#    Mem Usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ============
Rserve.exe                    8600 Console                    1     39,312 K
Rserve_d.exe                 12652 Console                    1     39,324 K

Let's shut 'em down.

> RSshutdown(rsc)
> RSshutdown(rscd)

And they're gone...

> system('tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq Rserve.exe"')
> system('tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq Rserve_d.exe"')

INFO: No tasks are running which match the specified criteria.

Rserve can be used w/o RSclient by starting it with args and/or a config script. Then you can connect to it from some other program (like Tableau) or with your own code. RSclient provides a way to pass commands/data to Rserve from an instance of R.

Hope this helps :)