RStudio Server Guide

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Based on the Rstudio Guide. This guide is designed to help you start with RStudio Server, a web-based interface for R programming. RStudio Server allows you to run R and RStudio in a web browser, providing a flexible and accessible data analysis and visualization environment. This guide covers the installation and configuration of RStudio Server, as well as essential commands and examples for data analysis.

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Download the rstudio server for docker:

<syntaxhighlight lang="shell">docker pull rocker/rstudio</syntaxhighlight> Create a Dockerfile: Include necessary system dependencies and R packages

<syntaxhighlight lang="dockerfile">FROM rocker/rstudio

RUN apt clean all && \

   apt update && \
   apt upgrade -y && \
   apt install -y \
       libhdf5-dev \
       libcurl4-gnutls-dev \
       libssl-dev \
       libxml2-dev \
       libpng-dev \
       libxt-dev \
       zlib1g-dev \
       libbz2-dev \
       liblzma-dev \
       libglpk40 \
       libgit2-dev \
   && apt clean all && \
   apt purge && \
   rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/ /tmp/ /var/tmp/

RUN Rscript -e "install.packages(c('rmarkdown', 'tidyverse', 'workflowr', 'shiny', 'blogdown', 'bookdown', 'learnr', 'xaringan', 'rticles', 'pkgdown', 'devtools', 'usethis', 'testthat', 'roxygen', 'rhub', 'covr', 'rmarkdown', 'knitr', 'dplyr', 'readr', 'packrat', 'rsconnect'))"

the rstudio/ path is set for building with GitHub Actions

WORKDIR /home/rstudio</syntaxhighlight> Build Your Image

<syntaxhighlight lang="shell">docker build -t my-rstudio .</syntaxhighlight> Run Your Custom Container

<syntaxhighlight lang="shell">docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -e PASSWORD=yourpassword my-rstudio</syntaxhighlight> You may also consider running multiple servers to maintain isolation:

<syntaxhighlight lang="shell">docker run -d -p 8788:8787 -e USER=user1 -e PASSWORD=user1password my-rstudio docker run -d -p 8789:8787 -e USER=user2 -e PASSWORD=user2password my-rstudio</syntaxhighlight> Combined commands without comments

<syntaxhighlight lang="shell">docker pull rocker/rstudio touch Dockerfile echo "FROM rocker/rstudio" >> Dockerfile echo "RUN apt clean all && \\" >> Dockerfile echo " apt update && \\" >> Dockerfile echo " apt upgrade -y && \\" >> Dockerfile echo " apt install -y \\" >> Dockerfile echo " libhdf5-dev \\" >> Dockerfile echo " libcurl4-gnutls-dev \\" >> Dockerfile echo " libssl-dev \\" >> Dockerfile echo " libxml2-dev \\" >> Dockerfile echo " libpng-dev \\" >> Dockerfile echo " libxt-dev \\" >> Dockerfile echo " zlib1g-dev \\" >> Dockerfile echo " libbz2-dev \\" >> Dockerfile echo " liblzma-dev \\" >> Dockerfile echo " libglpk40 \\" >> Dockerfile echo " libgit2-dev \\" >> Dockerfile echo " && apt clean all && \\" >> Dockerfile echo " apt purge && \\" >> Dockerfile echo " rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/ /tmp/ /var/tmp/" >> Dockerfile echo "RUN Rscript -e \"install.packages(c('rmarkdown', 'tidyverse', 'workflowr', 'shiny', 'blogdown', 'bookdown', 'learnr', 'xaringan', 'rticles', 'pkgdown', 'devtools', 'usethis', 'testthat', 'roxygen', 'rhub', 'covr', 'rmarkdown', 'knitr', 'dplyr', 'readr', 'packrat', 'rsconnect'))\"" >> Dockerfile echo "WORKDIR /home/rstudio" >> Dockerfile docker build -t my-rstudio . docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -e PASSWORD=yourpassword my-rstudio</syntaxhighlight>