Rstudio

Rstudio Server is installed on the GPU cluster and is available at hpc.radiology.hku.hk/rstudio. As the software doesn't offer an account creation page, prospective users need to request an account from Admin.

Features

• Rstudio has a built-in bash terminal
• Git is available
• Users can install R packages individually i.e. packages are not shared system-wide with other users.
• The Rstudio interface allows uploading and downloading files.

Administration details

• We are running a recent docker image from the Rocker project.
  • It is run by 3 prolific data scientists. Hosts multiple images, including some with cuda libraries.
  • The container is on cpu1, it is behind our reverse proxy.
• Rstudio Server has a login system based on Linux users with home folders
• Respinning the container wipes user accounts but preserves their home data in a named volume rstudiovol.
  • So just recreate the user and they can access their packages like before.