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 a version of R (refer to below). Finally, to enable RStudio, type the below command in the terminal.

module load R/3.6.1/gcc-6.3.0

module load General/rstudio/1.1.463

To boot the RStudio GUI, use the below:

rstudio

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

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.