emacs tramp over an unreliable connection

Question

I want to run R on a remote box under a local Emacs (I do not want to run Emacs on the remote box).

I can run R on a r

Answer 1

Here is how to use ESS with R running in a remote screen session:

• ssh to the remote host (outside of emacs)

• start screen session

• detach it

• open shell in emacs (M-x shell)

• ssh to the remote host again in the emacs shell

• resume the screen session (screen -r)

• start R

• finally attach ESS to the R process using M-x ess-remote in the shell buffer where you started R

There are more details, screenshots, and keybindings in this post http://blog.nguyenvq.com/2010/07/11/using-r-ess-remote-with-screen-in-emacs/