Hello, folks. If you are a developer using R you might need to install R Studio Server at some point. And thanks to this post, you will learn how to do it quickly and easily.
R Server is commercial software that can run on a range of platforms, at larger scales and workloads, and in client/server topologies that support remote access over secure connections.
In this way, we can have on our server the tools to be able to program in the R language.
So, let’s get started.
Install R Studio Server on Ubuntu
The first thing we have to do is to install the R programming language and its tools.
For this, we have prepared a post that will help you with it.
How to install R programming on Ubuntu 20.04 /18.04?
Once you are done with the installation you can continue.
With R installed, we can install by downloading a DEB package.
To do this, use the wget command.
wget https://download2.rstudio.org/server/bionic/amd64/rstudio-server-1.4.1106-amd64.deb --2021-04-17 00:18:34-- https://download2.rstudio.org/server/bionic/amd64/rstudio-server-1.4.1106-amd64.deb Resolving download2.rstudio.org (download2.rstudio.org)... 2600:9000:215d:8800:6:4ff5:2540:93a1, 2600:9000:215d:8400:6:4ff5:2540:93a1, 2600:9000:215d:3400:6:4ff5:2540:93a1, ... Connecting to download2.rstudio.org (download2.rstudio.org)|2600:9000:215d:8800:6:4ff5:2540:93a1|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 56222058 (54M) [application/x-deb] Saving to: ‘rstudio-server-1.4.1106-amd64.deb’ rstudio-server-1.4.1106-amd64.deb 100%[=====================================================================================>] 53.62M 72.4MB/s in 0.7s 2021-04-17 00:18:35 (72.4 MB/s) - ‘rstudio-server-1.4.1106-amd64.deb’ saved [56222058/56222058]
At the time of writing this post, the latest stable version is 1.4.1106 so check the R Server website first to see what the latest version is.
The next step is to install it by using the APT command
sudo apt install ./rstudio-server-1.4.1106-amd64.deb Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'rstudio-server' instead of './rstudio-server-1.4.1106-amd64.deb' The following additional packages will be installed: gcc-9-base lib32gcc-s1 lib32stdc++6 libasan5 libatomic1 libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libc6-i386 libclang-10-dev libclang-common-10-dev libclang-dev libclang1-10 libcrypt-dev libgc1c2 libgcc-9-dev libitm1 libllvm10 liblsan0 libobjc-9-dev libobjc4 libpq5 libstdc++-9-dev libtsan0 libubsan1 linux-libc-dev Suggested packages: glibc-doc manpages-dev libstdc++-9-doc Recommended packages: manpages-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: gcc-9-base lib32gcc-s1 lib32stdc++6 libasan5 libatomic1 libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libc6-i386 libclang-10-dev libclang-common-10-dev libclang-dev libclang1-10 libcrypt-dev libgc1c2 libgcc-9-dev libitm1 libllvm10 liblsan0 libobjc-9-dev libobjc4 libpq5 libstdc++-9-dev libtsan0 libubsan1 linux-libc-dev rstudio-server 0 upgraded, 26 newly installed, 0 to remove and 47 not upgraded. Need to get 60.0 MB/116 MB of archives. After this operation, 1,015 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
This will install it on the system.
R Server is handled as a system service so we can start, restart or stop it using systemctl.
After installing it, you should then check if the service has been started correctly.
sudo systemctl status rstudio-server
● rstudio-server.service - RStudio Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rstudio-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2021-04-17 00:21:52 CEST; 1s ago
Process: 5472 ExecStart=/usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/rserver (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 5473 (rserver)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 2286)
Memory: 20.3M
CGroup: /system.slice/rstudio-server.service
└─5473 /usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/rserver
Apr 17 00:21:52 osradar systemd[1]: Starting RStudio Server...
Apr 17 00:21:52 osradar systemd[1]: Started RStudio Server.
Now open a web browser and visit http://your-server:8787 to display the login screen.
You can log in with your system username and password.
After that, you can enjoy R Server.
Conclusion
With R Server it is possible to have the power of R in the cloud. This situation makes it quite useful in a variety of circumstances.
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