notes documenting rstudio.idiv.de

covering basic data orga, ssh and https access

rstudio1.md

+# Short Notes documenting the RStudio server at iDiv
+
+## Access Web-IDE of RStudio
+1. [https://rstudio.idiv.de](https://rstudio.idiv.de)
+1. use your iDiv username and password to login
+
+
+## ssh access
+You can only reach the server from the internal network, i.e. if you are connected via VPN or cable at iDiv. Note that the internal name is rstudio1 instead of rstudio!
+
+### Linux
+From a terminal run
+
+{{{bash
+ssh rstudio1.idiv.de
+}}}
+
+## Data organisation
+Currently there are three important places for you on the server:
+
+1. /homes/$USER your home directory 
+2. /data place any larger files you want to work with here
+3. /home/$USER/winhome a mounting point for your network home directory
+
+### Home directory
+When you log in either via https or ssh this is usually the first place where you end up. Your home directory can be abbreviated by "~/". There is not a lot of space here, so do not place any larger data here. RStudio has the ugly not configurable habit to write quite some temporary data here (e.g. cached plots and suspended sessions), so please make sure that you clean up occasionally. It is a good place for your scripts.
+
+### /data
+You can create your own directories here and place data inside. By default others can read the directories you created here, but not write in them. If you need any special permission let us know via it-support@idiv.de.
+
+## network home
+This is about \\idiv.de\public\homes. To make it available on the rstudio server you need to get active. Log in via ssh and run
+```
+su - $USER
+```
+You will be asked to enter your password again and afterwards your network home will be available at `~/winhome`. However, it will only stay mounted until you log out. If you have any longer running jobs you might want to consider either moving stuff from the ~/winhome to /data or open a tmux session from which you detach (Ctrl+b, d) before you disconnect.
+