Why does "rstudio-server start" not work??
At this point, I could not find any helpful answer even on stackoverflow. I cross-checked that the below steps 1-5 are sufficient for installing Rstudio Server on Ubuntu from the following blog-posts: https://www.r-bloggers.com/installing-rstudio-server-on-ubuntu-server/ http://www.joeroe.eu/blog/2015/08/rstudio-server-on-a-google-compute-engine-instance/ https://gist.github.com/rweald/4321052
Here's what I did:
1. Create Google Cloud VM
Google Cloud Compute Engine > Create VM Instance (on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)
2. Installing R
sudo nano /etc/sources.list
enter:
deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/
get public key for ubuntu:
sudo apt-key adv —keyserver keys.gnupg.net —recv-key 381BA480
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base libapparmor1
sudo apt-get install r-base
3. Installing Rstudio Server
sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
wget https://download2.rstudio.org/rstudio-server-1.0.143-amd64.deb
sudo gdebi rstudio-server-1.0.143-amd64.deb
4. Open port 8787 in Google Cloud firewall
gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-rstudio --allow tcp:8787
Remark: I did verify that the port 8787 is open: gcloud compute firewall-rules list NAME NETWORK SRC_RANGES RULES SRC_TAGS TARGET_TAGS allow-rstudio default 0.0.0.0/0 tcp:8787 allow-rstudio
5. Verify Rstudio Server
No response: http://:8787 >> browser is hanging
No response: sudo rstudio-server verify-installation >> command executes, no message
No response: sudo rstudio-server restart >> no running process to restart ("rsession: no process found")
No response: sudo rstudio-server start >> command executes, no message
Thanks for any thoughtful help why RStudio Server is not running.