Use WPS4R on Windows

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This tutorial shows the steps to install WPS4R on a Windows machine. Since Rserve only has limited support for windows this deployment is not recommended for production use.

Prerequisites

• R (see http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/) and Rserve (see http://www.rforge.net/Rserve/).
  • R Version: WPS4R should work with all R versions as long as Rserve is working. Given the continuous improvements of R we recommend installing the latest available version. The linked tutorial for Linux uses several version numbers in its text, using a generic "version-number.x.x" if steps are not specific for a version.
    If you follow the steps in the tutorial, you will install the latest available version.
  • CRAN mirror: The CRAN mirrors all contain (potentially with a small delay) the same software/packages and you should pick one that is "close" to you (maybe even within your own university network). If you cannot decide: the RStudio mirrors are deemed to be quite fast as they internally use a content delivery network: http://cran.rstudio.com/.
  • Environment variable R must be on the path, and since Rserve documentation mentions it uses a variable RHOME the following environment variables should exist (replacing x.y.z with your installations version number):

    RHOME = C:\Program Files\R\R-x.y.z
    PATH = [...];%RHOME%\bin\x64=

Installation steps

TBD

Troubleshooting

To see if Rserve is started, you can use the command telnet localhost 6311. Telnet must be activated manually in Windows 7/8.