RStudio

Rstudio offers a graphical interface to facilitate the interaction between a user and an underlying programming language (this is sometimes called IDE, or integrated development environment). It can be very useful when a user is not necessarily proficent with command line-based computing. However, such graphical interfaces are not always able to connect to services such as AWS.

Since most of the preliminary analysis we do is on AWS, we’d like to be able to use Rtudio directly from there. To do that, simply go to the following address:

http://54.191.190.243:8787

Don’t forget, you can run a bash terminal from within RStudio! This may come handy if you want to process some data with cellranger, for example. To do this, simply click on the terminal button next on the bottom left panel. You should now be in your own ${home} directory (~).