Users can either run RStudio Server in Open OnDemand or by manually submiting a SLURM job script and connecting to the server through SCINet VPN or via ssh-tunnel. Running RStudio Server on Ceres allows SCINet users to access any data on Ceres that they can access from the command line (SSH). Other R packages can be easily installed into your home directory from within RStudio. The provided geospatial image provides not only geospatial libraries, but also LaTeX / publishing libraries, and Tidyverse data science libraries. RStudio Server is currently available on Ceres using a Docker image (imported into Singularity) provided by the Rocker project.

RStudio Server on Ceres through SCINet VPN or via ssh-tunnel.

NEW: RStudio Server on Ceres in Open OnDemand.

To run an RStudio Server virtual machine on and access data in Amazon Web Services, contact the SCINet VRSC.

To run RStudio and access data on your local workstation, download the open source RStudio Desktop.SCINet users can use RStudio in one of the following ways:

A graphical file manager allows file upload/download from Ceres via web browser. RStudio Server is a client/server version of RStudio that runs on a remote server and is accessed via the client’s web browser. RStudio provides a powerful graphical environment for importing data in a number of formats (including CSV, Excel spreadsheets, SAS, and SPSS) manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing data version control with git or SVN a graphical R package manager that provides point/click search/installation/uninstallation of R packages from its substantial ecosystem (including the Bioconductor repository, which provides almost 1500 software tools “for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data.”) and many other features. RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for the R programming language, with limited support for other programming languages (including Python, bash, and SQL).

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