RStudio on-premises + R cloudy

Question

Is there a way to run RStudio locally on my machine, but using a remote machine running on R instead of installing R locally?

To be clear, I know that it is possible to use an RStudio server with a web-based GUI, but I'm setting something else. I want to use RStudio as a local application connected to a remote computer with R (possibly via ssh).

Is it possible?

Answer 1

Viewing high performance computing can be of some help. Unfortunately, I did not find an easy way to do this and instead just redirect the local RStudio instance to our Linux cluster via X using SSH. You will need XQuartz if you are on OS X.

I believe RStudio Server is probably the best way to do this. You can easily associate RStudio authentication with PAM on your Linux server for authentication.

ssh -X [e-mail] rstudio