Install this package the usual way in R or via:
library(devtools)
install_github("hrpcisd/distcomp")
Then, you will find a document that describes several examples installed under the R library tree. For example:
list.files(system.file("doc", package = "distcomp"))
list.files(system.file("doc_src", package = "distcomp"))
The examples described in the Journal of Statistical Software paper are available as follows:
list.files(system.file("ex", package = "distcomp"))
Use of this package requires some configuration. In particular, to run
the examples on a local machine where a single opencpu server will
be emulating several sites, a suitable R profile needs to be set
up. That profile will be something along the lines of
library(distcomp)
distcompSetup(workspace = "full_path_to_workspace_directory",
ssl_verifyhost = 0L, ssl_verifypeer = 0L)
where the workspace is a directory that the opencpu server can
serialize objects to. On Unix or Mac, the above can be inserted into
an .Rprofile file, but on Windows, we find that the Rprofile.site
file needs to contain the above lines.
The effect of this is that every R process (including the opencpu
process) has access to the distcomp library and the workspace.
In some earlier versions of Yosemite (MacOS 10.10.2 for example) there
were issues with the opencpu package. We suspected it had more to do
with Yosemite than opencpu or httpuv---see the number of DNS
resolver issues people are having with the move to discoveryd via a
google search.
Furthermore, even if opencpu came up, which it did sometimes after
many tries, you were better off using the ip address 127.0.0.1 in
the url in place of localhost due to those DNS problems.
We no longer see this problem in recent versions of Yosemite (10.10.5+).