R/Rstudio trouble shooting

Here are some know issues with R/Rstudio on Compute.

Install R/Rstudio

r-stan problems

Issues installing rstan dependencies.

Set static download of the V8 library:

Sys.setenv(DOWNLOAD_STATIC_LIBV8=1)
install.packages("V8")

Update R

When starting RStudio it may inform you that it is an outdated version and that you should get the latest version from the website. Click ignore.

To update R, do it through Anaconda:

conda update r-base

Error messages when starting Rstudio

Several error messages may appear in the terminal when starting RStudio.

Ignore them if RStudio starts and works as expected.

Install packages

Some packages, such as lme4, cannot be installed through RStudio.

First install CMake through Anaconda:

conda install -c anaconda cmake

After this, install lme4 through R as usual:

install.packages("lme4")