Is there a way to start run R interactively on a slave node?
Although we can login to the server using qlogin, this does not allow us to launch emacs + ess, which runs on the head node.
Thanks!
as per @newuser's request, I found the following parts of the PATH variable that are only found when on the head node, but are removed from path when on the slave node
/opt/eclipse:/opt/maven/bin:/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin
There is a fair chance that emacs is not installed on the slave nodes. You may need to discuss installation with your cluster admin. They will need to install Emacs on each node in order for you to use it there. Keep in mind, however, that this sort of breaks the typical grid paradigm where the master node controls jobs and the slave nodes are worker bees. Generally in this paradigm one does not edit files manually on the slave nodes. I suspect that is why emacs is not installed on the slaves.