Install RStudio on AWS EC2 instance

Question

I managed to create an EC2 instance Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09.1 (randomly chosen) on Amazon Web Services (AWS). I can send and receive files from my local desktop to AWS properly.

Now I would like to install R (RStudio Server) on AWS. When searching for an answer, I found the script below that is to be written into Putty:

# install R base

$ sudo yum install r-base

#install RStudio-Server 1.1.442

$ sudo yum install gdebi-core

$ wget https://download2.rstudio.org/rstudio-server-1.1.442-amd64.deb

$ sudo gdebi rstudio-server-1.1.442-amd64.deb
#add user(s)

useradd username

echo username:password | passwordtest

But the answer I get each time is: "No package r-base available" or also "No package gdebi-core available".

Are they some prerequisite steps that I am missing?

Answer 1

Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09.1 is based on Centos 6 and the step you got is for Ubuntu(gdebi is an Ubuntu installer), Here are the steps from the official documentation.

$ sudo yum install R

$ wget https://download2.rstudio.org/rstudio-server-rhel-1.1.442-x86_64.rpm

$ sudo yum install rstudio-server-rhel-1.1.442-x86_64.rpm

You can try this it worked out fine for me. Hope this help.