This tag is to be used for rstudio-server, which provides a browser based interface for R / Rstudio running on a remote server. Note that this is different from accessing the Rstudio IDE directly via remote access.
Questions tagged [rstudio-server]
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Rstudio server in a (firefox) browser: confict between shortcuts
I am using Rstudio Server from within Firefox. This allows me to run Rstudio as if I was using its desktop version. A key difference is that there is now a conflict between Rstudio definition of shortcuts, and firefox ones:
Both have open (Ctrl +…

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Source .bashrc in Rstudio
I have just installed some Perl modules locally in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
When calling them using the RStudio Server like this
system("perl -MBio::TreeIO -e 1")
I get the following error
Can't locate Bio/TreeIO.pm in @INC (you may need to install the…

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Log in RStudio with AWS EC2 instance
I managed to follow all the steps to create EC2 instance and install R Server on it.
But now when I go to RStudio to connect (which looks something like "ec2-[Public IP]-.eu-west-3.compute.amazonaws.com:8787")
I am asked a username and a password…

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Launch Shiny app with HTTP/POST request
I have a functional shinyapp, and I would like for it to launch when called through an HTTP request, but with the POST method.
Here is a simple example:
My shinyapp is accessible through the browser at: http://127.0.0.1:5527.
To try out launching…

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How to I bypass the login page on Rstudio?
I am trying to bypass the login page on RStudio as we are running it in a Docker container and this step is not necessary as we authenticate before we let users launch the container.
I am using the Rocker implementation of RStudio for Docker. We…

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Risk in deleting suspended session data?
In a .Rproj.user folder there is a folder named "B1B3AE79/suspended-session-data."
Inside that folder is an object named "environment" taking up over 60 GB of space. I need to clean this up. I have saved .Rmd scripts and datasets elsewhere.
What…

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unable to install RPostgreSQL in rstudio-server docker container to connect to postgres
I have a rstudio-server docker container (R-server) and a postgres docker container (Pg), and am using rstudio-server to connect to postgres database via RPostgreSQL package. However, I can't install RPostgreSQL package on R-server, and don't want…

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Using all cores with Microsoft R Open and Google Compute Engine
I'm using Microsoft R Open on a GCE instance that has two vCPUs. Here are its specs.
$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 2
On-line CPU(s) list: …

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Configure log directory for RStudio Server 1.0.44
I'm running RStudio Server 1.0.44 on CentOS 7.
According to the documentation, the server monitor logs are located at /var/lib/rstudio-server/monitor/log, but I'm unable to find them there.
There is not monitor folder under /var/lib/rstudio-server…

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Render rmarkdown from RStudio server to external drive
When working locally, I use the following to render rmarkdown documents:
rmarkdown::render(input = rmd.temp , output_dir = out.dir, output_file = out.name)
This gets my template doc rmd.temp, then renders the document to out.dir and names the file…

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RStudio Server not starting
I have been working in a remote RStudio server for the last few months without any issues. Today, I restarted the rstudio server in using this command
sudo rstudio-server restart
After this, I am not able to access the server via browser. It keeps…

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How can directly access AWS S3 buckets as a dataset in RStudioServer?
I have multiple s3 buckets on an aws account and I also have a EC2 machine running Rstudio Pro. I would like to access my S3 buckets (that are several Terabytes of data each).
I would like to be able to set up rstudio to mount the buckets as Data…

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RStudio Server on ec2 - Not persistent when closing browser tab
I am running RStudio server on an ec2 instance (using Louis Aslett's AMI) and connect through the browser.
I have some long scripts to run and thought I would be able to leave them running and close the browser tab/turn off my computer.
However,…

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Can I pass arguments into docker-compose the command config option
Anyone know how I can use the command: option in docker-compose to run my command with arguments? I know version 2 offers arguments, but that works with docker-engine 1.10.x I am on docker-engine 1.6.2 and cannot upgrade at the moment.
I want to…

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Paths in ssh versus Rstudio server for pandoc and knitr
I am running a Rstudio AWS instance using the premade AMI (http://www.louisaslett.com/RStudio_AMI/). Using this i am able to boot into rstudio server. I can create a default .Rmd file and knit without problem. I get the normal message at the end…

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