RStudio 2016

Introduction

RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for the R programming language. Some of its features include:

• Customizable workbench with all of the tools required to work with R in one place (console, source, plots, workspace, help, history, etc.).
• Syntax highlighting editor with code completion.
• Execute code directly from the source editor (line, selection, or file).
• Full support for authoring Sweave and TeX documents. ¹

RStudio is available as server or desktop versions. On this cluster, the desktop version is installed.

Installed version(s)

This version is installed and currently available on environment hpc-env/6.4:

RStudio/1.2.5019-intel-2018a

Using RStudio

If you want to find out more about RStudio on the HPC cluster, you can use the command

module spider RStudio

This will show you basic informations e.g. a short description and the currently installed version.

To load the desired version of the module, use the command, e.g.

module load hpc-env 6.4
module load RStudio

Always remember: this command is case sensitive!

Please have in mind, that the login nodes are just for running small scripts and for time-constrained testing purposes. Should you need to do time consuming calculations with the RStudi GUI, please create a interactive session.

Documentation

For RStudio there is a manual archive available on theyr website.