RStudio Server

RStudio Server provides a professional integrated development environment for R, accessible from any web browser. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor, plotting tools, workspace management, and Shiny application support — all running on the server.

Key Features

• Full R IDE: Console, editor, environment viewer, plot history, and file browser in the browser.
• Shiny app support: Develop, test, and deploy interactive Shiny web applications.
• Package management: Install and manage CRAN packages with dependency resolution.
• OpenCloud integration: Mounts the user's OpenCloud storage via rclone WebDAV sidecar for direct file access.
• Data import/export: Native support for CSV, Excel, SPSS, SAS, and Stata file formats.

Integration with openDesk Edu

RStudio Server is part of the Collab Services suite and deploys via a custom local Helm chart (helmfile/charts/rstudio). It authenticates through Keycloak using an oauth2-proxy sidecar and is accessible at r.* under the institution's wildcard DNS. An OpenCloud WebDAV sidecar provides seamless file sync with the user's cloud storage.

Learn More

• Official Documentation — RStudio Server docs and resources