RStudio locally + R cloudly

Question

Is there any way to run RStudio locally on my machine but using a remote machine running R as engine instead of my local R install?

To be clear I know that there's the possibility to use RStudio server with a web GUI but I am asking something different. I want to use both my local RStudio app connected to a remote machine running R (possibly through ssh).

Is it possible?

Answer 1

The High Performance Computing Task View may be of some assistance. Unfortunately, I haven't found an easy way to do this and instead simply forward a local RStudio instance on our Linux cluster over X using SSH. You'll need XQuartz if you're on OS X.

I suppose that RStudio Server is probably a better way of doing this. You can easily tie in the RStudio authentication to PAM on your Linux server to authenticate.

ssh -X [email protected] rstudio