RStudio Server

RStudio Server on Rivanna/Afton is an Open OnDemand interactive app: a full RStudio IDE in the browser on a compute node.

Links:

• Interactive apps overview
• Portal: ood.hpc.virginia.edu

Launch

1. Log in at Open OnDemand with NetBadge.
2. Interactive Apps → RStudio Server.
3. Fill in the form (allocation, partition/time, cores/memory; select an R version).
4. Click Launch. When ready, click Connect to RStudio Server.

You can navigate the cluster filesystem from within RStudio. If the browser disconnects, reopen the session from My Interactive Sessions while the job is still running. Delete the session when done to free resources.

Tips for data science

• Install packages as you would locally, subject to cluster network and module constraints (outbound access is limited; some sites are whitelisted; see RC’s RStudio page).
• Put large data under /scratch or /project (storage overview).
• For long, non-interactive R jobs, prefer a batch job over an open RStudio session.

Example scripts & codes

Placeholder: example R scripts and projects will be added here.