RStudio Server - IDE for R Lang

[drml]

Is there a way to run R and RStudio while running Cloudron on a server?
Thanks for the support.

[girish]

@drml I moved your question here. Currently, there is no way to run RStudio Server until someone packages it for Cloudron.

[girish]

I found a Dockerfile at https://community.rstudio.com/t/dockerfile-for-rstudio-server/10753 . I have never used R, so maybe someone who knows it can tell me what it's used for.

[marcusquinn]

@girish I have a good friend at the BBC that uses it for data journalism there. Admittedly, not looked into it further but sounds like the de-facto tool in that area.

[[[global:former-user]]]

From what I understand it’s often used for analysis like MatLab. Never used it though.

[[[global:former-user]]]

I use RStudio for spatial data analysis, dashboard creation, and generating reports. Would be nice to see it on Cloudron.

[avatar1024]

@thpuffin +1 for that! R is very versatile and used for many scientific projects, even website building, paper writing. Be great to have R studio on Cloudron!

[murgero]

@avatar1024 For what it's worth, my unofficial VSCode app has R support built in: https://github.com/mitchellurgero/cloudron-vscode-package if it's something you need right now. It's no rstudio for R but it may get the job done.

[augusto]

Hi, just to bump this and share a link to the "rocker project" (https://rocker-project.org/) since they are the standard for maintaining containerized R images. See the image rocker/rstudio

I personally use R for tons of stuff, like interacting with APIs (httr package), creating my own APIs (plumbr), cleaning and transforming datasets (tidyverse) and creating web apps (shiny)

would love to see it packaged in a cloudron app

[nottheend]

Hi,
I created a sample R Studio cloudron App as a proof of concept and installed it on my cloudron.
It seems to work quite nicely for a single user

https://github.com/nottheend/r-app