Demonstration script for setting up R, Git, and Jags on Ubuntu instance of Amazon EC2 Server

R_Jags_AmazonEc2_Setup.sh

# Set up RStudio and JAGS on an Amazon EC2 instance
# Using Ubuntu 64-bit
# Partially from http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/r-in-the-cloud-part-1.html 
# See yhat for EC2 instance set up

# Navigate to key pair
# ssh -i YOUR_KEYPAIR.pem ubuntu@PUBLIC_DNS

# Add a user/password.
# This will become your RStudio username and password.
sudo adduser USER_NAME

# Get all programs up to date
sudo apt-get update

# Install R and JAGSS
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter
sudo apt-get install r-base-dev jags r-cran-rjags

# Check that you have the latest R installed
## see also: http://askubuntu.com/a/352438
sudo apt-get update
apt-cache showpkg r-base

# If R is not the latest version add latest PACKAGE_VERSION returned 
# from the pervious line to:
sudo apt-get install -f r-base=PACKAGE_VERSION

# Install git
sudo apt-get install git

# Configure git
git config --global user.name GIT_USER_NAME
git config --global user.email GIT_USER_EMAIL

# Install RStudio
## for latest version of RStudio see http://www.rstudio.com/ide/download/server
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
sudo apt-get install libapparmor1
wget http://download2.rstudio.org/rstudio-server-0.98.945-amd64.deb
sudo gdebi rstudio-server-0.98.945-amd64.deb

# Verify RStudio installation
sudo rstudio-server verify-installation

#### Git clone your repo as usual, ideally into /home/USER_NAME ####
# This is where RStudio server looks.

# Change owner of the repo to USER_NAME
sudo chown -R USER_NAME /home/USER_NAME/REPO_NAME

# Access RStudio Server with http://PUBLIC_DNS:8787