[rkward-users] Rkward listening to port 22299

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi!

On Wednesday 07 May 2014 16:19:34 Ghislain Durif wrote:
> I am new in this list and I am very sorry if that question has already
> been asked. I encountered an interesting problem while I was doing some
> administration on my computer (Ubuntu 12.04). I am currently working
> with Rkward 0.6.1 (and KDE 4.8.5), installed from the debian ppa
> repository. It appears from a port scan with the netstat command that
> the process rkward.rbacken is listening to the port 22299 while running.
> I wonder whether it is a normal behaviour or not?

It is normal behavior for the RKWard R backend (as for any R session) to 
listen on one unprivileged port. The exact number will vary. This is the R 
help server. Try pointing a browser to

  http://127.0.0.1:XXXXXX/library/base/html/print.html

(substituting XXXXXX for the port number).

Regards
Thomas
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