HYAK: R and Rstudio

Recorded training delivered on Zoom on 28 August 2024.
Presenter: Dr. Kristen Finch; HPC Staff Scientist; Hyak Team

IMPORTANT: this is NOT an R and Rstudio how-to, this tutorial is how to use R and Rstudio containers on Hyak.

"HYAK: Containers are your Friend" tutorial video is a recommended pre-requisite for this video:    • HYAK: "Containers are your friend"  

This video covers:
- What is a container and why use them?
- Why use R and Rstudio containers? (Rocker Project)
- SSH port forwarding to Rstudio server
- Custom R and Rstudio containers
- Rscript function
- submitting Rscripts with SLURM for long running jobs

We have a written walk through tutorial that covers most of this video content: https://hyak.uw.edu/docs/tools/r

Websites cited during this video:
R and Rstudio containers: https://hub.docker.com/u/rocker
Rocker Project: https://rocker-project.org/

The SLURM submission script that we use in this tutorial was adapted from https://rocker-project.org/use/singul...