This tag is to be used for rstudio-server, which provides a browser based interface for R / Rstudio running on a remote server. Note that this is different from accessing the Rstudio IDE directly via remote access.
Questions tagged [rstudio-server]
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Cannot log-in to rstudio-server
I have previously successfully installed rstudio-server with brew install rstudio-server on a Mac OS X 10.11.4.
Now, I am trying to login to rstudio-server 0.99.902 without success. From the client side, I get a pop-up window saying -
"RStudio…

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Fresh new session for rstudio-server
I am running rstudio-server on a virtualised (vmware-player) ubuntu machine, and processing lots of data into the ram. I find that after some inactivity that the session suspends the data. The problem is that it takes a VERY long time to resume this…

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Does R-Server or Shiny Server create a new R process/instance for each user?
I'm considering different solutions for creating a Web application that shows some data analytics to the user. I want to use R with shiny server but I'm not certain how it is gonna scale for large number of users. Questions:
Can shiny server…

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Rstudio-server environment variables not loading?
I'm trying to run rhadoop on Cloudera's hadoop distro (I can't remember if its CDH3 or 4), and am running into an issue: Rstudio server doesn't seem to recognize my global variables.
In my /etc/profile.d/r.sh file, I have:
export…

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Run multiple instances of RStudio in a web browser
I have RStudio server installed on a remote aws server (ubuntu) and want to run several projects at the same time (one of which takes lots of time to finish). On Windows there is a simple GUI solution like 'Open Project in New Window'. Is there…

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Enter passwords interactively in R or R Studio (Server)?
Is there a way in R to enter passwords interactively to the command line and hide them from the screen? I know there's readLine, but I do not know passwords can be hidden there.
Assume you want to connect to a database using ROracle or RMySQL and…

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How to handle DB passwords in R connection strings?
Though I don't know what the SO quorum would be, the question itself is simple:
How do y'all handle passwords in db connection string when you connect to a database from R?
Tutorials often show an example like this.
con <- dbConnect(MySQL(),…

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Install R Studio Server on Windows
Is it possible to install RStudio Server on a Windows machine? I know that it is possible if I use AMI, but how could I install it without AMI?
I've read at…

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Error: RPC failed; curl 55 The requested URL returned error: 401 when pushing to GIT from R Studio
I can't push from R Studio and I keep getting the error:
error: RPC failed; curl 55 The requested URL returned error: 401
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Everything up-to-date

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How can I set up an RStudio server to run with SSL on AWS?
I am interested in running an RStudio server on an AWS instance and accessing the server through an SSL encrypted connection.
How do I set that up?

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How can I use Conda environments with RStudio Server?
For my data science projects, I use conda to keep track of all installed packages.
> conda create -n my_project R=3.4.1 r-tidyverse
> conda activate my_project
> which R
/storage/apps/anaconda3/envs/my_project/bin/R
> R --version
R version 3.4.1…

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initctl: Unknown instance: error after Rstudio conf change
I have a new version of R installed on an aws-machine (which always come with an old version for some reason and it's near impossible to just have yum or apt-get to work). I want rstudio to point to this new version which I've built from source…

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Shiny & RStudio Server: "Error during WebSocket handshake: Unexpected response code: 404"
I have an instance of RStudio Server (0.98.945) on Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS. I upgraded to this newest version for the new feature that is supposed to allow you to run Shiny apps within the IDE. On the desktop version, this means RStudio opens a new…

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Suddenly ggplot Crashes R studio, Any suggestions?
Suddenly ggplot began causing errors and froze my base system
a reboot gave me the following:
"R Session Error", "The previous R session was abnormally terminated due to an unexpected crash"
I am using RStudio Server
In an effort to solve the…

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Use docker multistage builds for R development and deployment setting
Problem
For development, I want to use a Docker image with the RStudio IDE, which relatively heavy. I also need many packages for my project, so I create my own docker file that has the above referenced image in the FROM statement. Let's call this…

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