Running R and RStudio Server on Red Hat Linux RHEL #rstats

Installing R

• sudo rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

(OR sudo rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm )

THEN

• sudo yum install R

THEN

• sudo R

(and to paste in Linux Window- just use Shift + Insert)

To Install RStudio (from http://www.rstudio.com/ide/download/server)

32-bit

•  wget http://download2.rstudio.org/rstudio-server-0.97.320-i686.rpm

•  sudo yum install --nogpgcheck rstudio-server-0.97.320-i686.rpm

OR 64-bit

•  wget http://download2.rstudio.org/rstudio-server-0.97.320-x86_64.rpm

•  sudo yum install --nogpgcheck rstudio-server-0.97.320-x86_64.rpm

Then

• sudo rstudio-server verify-installation

Changing Firewalls in your RHEL

-Change to Root

• sudo bash 

-Change directory

• cd etc/sysconfig

-Read Iptables ( or firewalls file)

• vi iptables

( to quite vi , press escape, then colon :  then q )

-Change Iptables to open port 8787

• /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8787 -j ACCEPT


Add new user name (here newuser1)

• sudo useradd newuser1

Change password in new user name

• sudo passwd newuser1

Now just login to IPADDRESS:8787 with user name and password above

(credit- IBM SmartCloud Support ,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woVjq83gJkg&feature=player_embedded, Rstudio help, David Walker http://datamgmt.com/installing-r-and-rstudio-on-redhat-or-centos-linux/, www.google.com ,Michael Grieb)