Download code from GCloud VM instance with expired RStudio Server license

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I had created a Google compute engine (virtual machine) instance with RStudio Server being unaware that RStudio Server is a licensed software. Now, my trial license for RStudio has expired, and I cannot login to my R sessions anymore.

However, I had written some code which I need to recover. How do I download the files?

I have SSH-ed into my virtual machine but cannot find the relevant files or a way to download them.

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I had a similar issue and I was able to recover the files by performing the following steps:

  • SSH to the virtual machine
  • Once you are in the virtual machine run the following command: cd ../rstudio-user/
  • Now ls there you will see the file structure you used to see in the RStudio Server interface}
  • Navigate using cd and ls between the folders to get to the desired file
  • Once you are in the desired location (where with an ls you can see the files you want to recover) run the following command: pwd
  • Click on the Engine and go to download file
  • Enter the full path of the file you want to download, it will be something like: /home/rstudio-user/FILENAME.R
  • Click on Download

You can do this for each of the files you want to recover.

In case you want to recover a full folder its easier to compress to a zip file and then to download it.

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