Install RStudio Server on centOS6.5

      My system is 64-bit centOS 6.5. The 64-bit version then is 0.98.766 and the following error  appeared when installing RStudio Server preview version:

Refer to an article on stackoverflow:

Completion of the above steps is still not enough. Running rstudio-server verify-installation still reports errors.

The problem lies in the lack of library files, but there is indeed a file as mentioned in the error report  under /usr/lib. Then let’s check the library files under / usr/lib64 :

We could find there is no libcrypto.so.6 and libssl.so.6.

Attempting  to create a soft link library files:

rstudio-server verify-installation  test passed.

Firewall settings

In the browser, when entering http:// <server IP>: 8787, you will find it impossible to get accessed.  This  is due to built-in firewall policy in centOS which have not added 8787 port. Next, modify the firewall configuration file:

Add -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT after the following sentence:

So that you can access it!

User Settings

Sometimes we want to restrict user access to Rstudio Server, then it is necessary to modify the configuration file /etc/rstudio/rserver.conf, and add the following sentence:

Then add users groups rstudio_users and user supstat in the command line:

Then we can use supstat account to login in the Rstudio Server :

View the process:

We can see there are two rstudio-server-related processes: one is rserver system, and the other is the user supstat ‘s  rsession.

System configuration and system management

• System Configuration
• System Management

For installing under ubuntu you can refer to Zhang Dan’s blog