R and R Studio
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. R Studio is an IDE for R.
Availability / Target HPC systems
- several version of R are installed on Woody and TinyX
Notes
- we used to provide the Microsoft R Open distribution as this distribution internally uses Intel MKL for some compute intensive routines to improve performance. As Microsoft stopped their R distribution, we switched to Conda.
- R could also be used / installed as a custom kernel in our jupyterhub installation; documentation will follow.
- the Open Source Edition of R Studio Server is not able to handle multiple users; thus, we cannot provide a central R Studio Server. However, R Studio Server could be run through Singularity (but without support from us) – cf. https://rocker-project.org/use/singularity/
- For convenience we provide a script on Woody/Memoryhog/TinyFat/TinyGPU which handles starting R Studio Server (but it may use an outdated version of the R image!):
/apps/rstudio/start-rocker-rstudio.sh
- The script will tell you how to forward the required port to your local machine and the access credentials.
- Don’t forget to kill the server / job once you are finished.
- For convenience we provide a script on Woody/Memoryhog/TinyFat/TinyGPU which handles starting R Studio Server (but it may use an outdated version of the R image!):
Sample job scripts
none so far
Further information
Mentors
- please volunteer!