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Mastering RStudio: Develop, Communicate, and Collaborate with R

You're reading from   Mastering RStudio: Develop, Communicate, and Collaborate with R Harness the power of RStudio to create web applications, R packages, markdown reports and pretty data visualizations

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783982547
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. The RStudio IDE – an Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. Communicating Your Work with R Markdown 3. R Lesson I – Graphics System 4. Shiny – a Web-app Framework for R 5. Interactive Documents with R Markdown 6. Creating Professional Dashboards with R and Shiny 7. Package Development in RStudio 8. Collaborating with Git and GitHub 9. R for your Organization – Managing the RStudio Server 10. Extending RStudio and Your Knowledge of R Index

Setting up R, RStudio, and the Shiny Server

Our server is up and running and we are able to communicate with our instance through the Secure Shell. Therefore, it is time to install the R, RStudio, and Shiny servers.

Choosing your RStudio version

There are two different versions of the RStudio Server: the open source version that is free to download, and the Enterprise version, also called RStudio Pro, which represents the paid version and contains some more administrative tools and features. The features are a more effective resource management tool, monitoring functionalities and enhanced security options. We will choose the open source version in the later parts of this chapter.

Choosing your RStudio version

Installing base R

Open your terminal and connect with your instance. It is recommended that you use sudo in front of any command, since our instance is an Ubuntu server. Sudo is a command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux or Mac OS X, that is used to launch processes with the privileges of the...

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