Purdue University

RStudio

RStudio is a graphical integrated development environment (IDE) for R. RStudio is the most popular environment for developing both R scripts and packages. RStudio is provided on most Research systems.

There are two methods to launch RStudio on the cluster: command-line and application menu icon.

Link to section 'Launch RStudio by the command-line:' of 'RStudio' Launch RStudio by the command-line:

module load gcc
module load r
module load rstudio
rstudio

Note that RStudio is a graphical program and in order to run it you must have a local X11 server running or use Thinlinc Remote Desktop environment. See the ssh X11 forwarding section for more details.

Link to section 'Launch Rstudio by the application menu icon:' of 'RStudio' Launch Rstudio by the application menu icon:

• Log into desktop.negishi.rcac.purdue.edu with web browser or ThinLinc client
• Click on the Applications drop down menu on the top left corner
• Choose Cluster Software and then RStudio

R and RStudio are free to download and run on your local machine. For more information about RStudio:

• RStudio the Official Website
• RStudio Essentials: Tutorial
• DataCamp: Working with the RStudio IDE