In this post, we will introduce how to install the R environment and the RStudio Server on Ubuntu Linux 20.04. There are also professional versions with supporting services. RStudio Server is also open source software under AGPL v3.
Note that RStudio also has a desktop version and the installation tutorial is covered in How To Install R and RStudio Desktop in Ubuntu Linux 20.04. This is especially useful to install an RStudio Server in a powerful computer in the Cloud like AWS and access it from any where using any device with a browser connected to the Internet. RStudio Server provides a Web Server and users can connect to the Server using a web browser. RStudio Server is an R integrated development environment (IDE) that provides many useful features helping R developers to develop and debug R programs. R has rich software packages and is widely used for statistical analysis. The R environment is open source software under GPL. Once you are done with debugging, you can run your scripts on HPC in R without R studio.R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, providing a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques. Why do you need R-studio on HPC at all? You can run it on your laptop mounting your HPC as a folder via SSHFs to debug your scripts using small subsamples of real data. Once I had several people who wanted to run R-Studio on HPC, I with my fellow angry sysadmin installed R-Studio server on a dedicated node, which we excluded from the job queue, and people started working via the web interface. On the computing nodes - because they don't have GUI libraries, and they have to have a standard package set.
On the main node - because RStudio users may hang this node soon creating a mess for other users, and may destroy some critical services at the same time. When I was an angry sysadmin, I was definitely against the installation of R-studio neither on the main node of HPC, Have you tried, instead of trying to hack the system, to understand your sysadmin? Even if you install R-studio, which is possible, your sysadmin will figure it out very soon, and.
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