Installing R Studio Server on an Amazon Linux (Redhat) AMI

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Installing R Studio Server on an Amazon Linux (Redhat) AMI

• Drawn mostly from: http://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download-server/

• ssh into the instance.

• Install any outstanding updates
  sudo yum update

• Install R:
  sudo yum install R

• Install openSSL (not sure if the Linux AMI's require this, but it probably doesn't hurt.
  sudo yum install openssl098e # Required only for RedHat/CentOS 6 and 7

• Donwload and install the package
  wget http://download2.rstudio.org/rstudio-server-0.98.1103-x86_64.rpm
sudo yum install --nogpgcheck rstudio-server-0.98.1103-x86_64.rpm

• Create a user and assign a password
  sudo useradd <username>
sudo passwd <username>
  (assign password at the prompt)

• Use a browser to navigate to the machine's public DNS name on port 8787 (must have already enabled traffic on 8787 via the AWS security groups. This is usually done when configuring the VM.)
  Example: http://ec2-54-86-121-122.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8787

• Login using the username and credentials created above.

###Optional step: The port that RStudio Server listens on can be changed by adding www-port=80 to this file: /etc/rstudio/rserver.conf

Also, to install the RCurl package on an Amazon Linux AMI, the curl-devel package needs to be installed: sudo yum install curl-devel