RStudio package not found

[balnagy]

Do you have working apt repo? The installation is failing with the default one and I can't find the package here: http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/lucid/

This instruction says you should download manually: http://www.rstudio.com/ide/download/server

[joestump]

Not sure why I would download something manually when we have something like Chef. 😄

There is a list of mirrors on RStudio's site.

[davidski]

The list from @joestump only includes the CRAN repositories. I've not found any repo that has the rstudio-server package. I don't know how this workbook could function without it. 😦 It looks like this may need to be re-written to pull the file down from the Rstudio site and install locally.

[joestump]

We use this in production so I know it works, though I do recall having to refactor something recently around this. I'll try and take a peek soon.

[joestump]

I think you guys are right. Not sure how it was working before, but it looks like the rstudio::shiny does do a manual download and install the way that they mention to for the regular server.

[joestump]

case node["platform"].downcase
when "ubuntu", "debian"
    include_recipe "apt"

    package "r-base"

    remote_shiny_server_file = "#{base_download_url}/shiny-server-#{node['rstudio']['shiny']['version']}-#{node['rstudio']['shiny']['arch']}.deb"
    local_shiny_server_file = "/tmp/shiny-server-shiny-server-#{node['rstudio']['shiny']['version']}-#{node['rstudio']['shiny']['arch']}.deb"
    remote_file local_shiny_server_file do
        source remote_shiny_server_file
        action :create_if_missing
        not_if { ::File.exists?('/etc/init/shiny-server.conf') }
    end

    execute "install-shiny-server" do
        command "dpkg --install #{local_shiny_server_file}"
        not_if { ::File.exists?('/etc/init/shiny-server.conf') }
    end

    r_package "shiny"
end

You should be able to change the stanza in recipes/shiny.rb to look similar to the recipes/shiny.rb one above to enable installing the server correctly.

[davidski]

Thanks, @joestump. I've got a hacked up fork working right now. I'll clean this up and submit a PR when it's slightly less ugly. 😄

[davidski]

PR request #6 submitted. I'd like to clean this up more (changing the pattern of URL construct, adding in rhel/centos support, etc.) but this is consistent with the shiny recipe and WFM under Ubuntu images. As i will probably need to deploy this on CentOS and AWS Linux, I expect to do another PR for those soon(ish) as well.