RStudio

What is RStudio?

"RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management" (source).

How to Use RStudio

First, connect to the server with X11 forwarding; for more, refer to here. Next, load the Rstudio module.

module load rstudio

This module also provides R 4.4.1 (the only version available due to severe security flaws in earlier versions) and MPI.

To use the RStudio GUI:

rstudio

To use the GUI but keep being able to use the command line:

rstudio &

Using RStudio on Compute Nodes

If a computation-heavy session is to be expected, it is highly recommended to allocate a compute node to do the work there. For more on that, refer to Salloc.

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