R/Rstudio trouble shooting

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

Install R/Rstudio

See here.

r-stan problems

Problem: issues installing rstan-dependencies

Solution: Set static download of V8 library

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

Update R

When starting RStudio it informs you that it is an outdated version and you should get the latest version from the website. Just click ignore. To update R your need to do it through Anaconda:

conda update r-base

Error messages when starting Rstudio

I get several error messages in the terminal when I start Rstudio. Those I ignore. Rstudio starts and it works ok.

Install packages

Some packages (like lme4) cannot be installed through RStudio. To fix this, I needed to first install CMake. Cmake can be installed though Anaconda, like this:

conda install -c anaconda cmake 

After this, it was possible to install lme4 through R as usual:

install.packages("lme4")