Installation

This section discusses how to install and use the RserveClient library.

Prerequisites

You will need access to an Rserve server. Instructions for downloading and configuring this to work with R are available at the Rserve documentation site.

Steps:

1. Download the source code
2. Put the directory in the INC path for your version of Perl.

Testing

You can check if your installation is working by running the test.pl script:

cd Rserve-perl
perl ./test.pl my-rserver.example.com

This should print the result "Hello, World!" returned from the R server. Todo:

I'm working to package this as a CPAN module, which will make installation much easier.