Installing R packages in rstudio on EC2

Question

Can you install R packages on AWS and use R on AWS EC2

Answer 1

Login to your account and then run these commands one at a time

sudo useradd rstudio

sudo mkdir /home/rstudio

sudo passwd rstudio

sudo chmod -R 0777 /home/rstudio

#update all files

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

#add cran mirror

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sources.list

#Add following line

deb http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/

#update files

sudo apt-get update

#install R w/o verification

sudo apt-get install r-base

If you want to use R to connect to any web data/API's

#install in order to use RCurl & XML

sudo aptitude install libcur14-openss1-dev

sudo apt-get install libxml12-dev

Install R studio server

sudo apt-get install gdebi-core

sudo apt-get install libapparmor1

#change to a writable directory

#dowload & install Rstudio server

cd /tmp

wget http://download2.rstudio.org/rstudio-server-0.97.336-amd64.deb

sudo gdebi rstudio-server-0.97.336-amd64.deb

Follow these steps and you are good to go. After this you can install a db of your choice or use AWS aurora.

Once you’ve installed the above commands, you can now access RStudio through your local browser. Navigate to the Public DNS of your image on port 8787, similar to:

The login and password will be the values you used in the image creation process (I used rstudio as my username above).