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Software => Applications and Porting => Topic started by: FlyingBlackbird on January 29, 2020, 03:06:21 pm

Title: RStudio desktop working on Raptor's power computer (ppc64le)?
Post by: FlyingBlackbird on January 29, 2020, 03:06:21 pm

I am using the statistical programming language R (which is available for ppc64le as ready-to-use package) a lot for data management and analytics
but the development IDE RStudio Desktop (https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download (https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download)) is still not available.

Could anybody compile RStudio successfully on ppc64le?

BTW: RStudio Server seems to be available (I did not test it so far) but "only" dockerized:

https://github.com/ppc64le/build-scripts/tree/master/rstudio (https://github.com/ppc64le/build-scripts/tree/master/rstudio)
https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/236077788-Running-RStudio-Server-on-IBM-Power8 (https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/236077788-Running-RStudio-Server-on-IBM-Power8)

Title: Re: RStudio desktop working on Raptor's power computer (ppc64le)?
Post by: MPC7500 on January 30, 2020, 07:05:19 am

I just found this, don't know if it works.
RStudio (https://hub.docker.com/r/ibmcom/rstudio-ppc64le/)
RStudio Server (https://github.com/ppc64le/build-scripts/tree/master/rstudio)

Title: Re: RStudio desktop working on Raptor's power computer (ppc64le)?
Post by: FlyingBlackbird on February 19, 2020, 01:09:29 am

URGENT REQUEST:

Since my Blackbird is defective and the RMA procedure is ongoing I am looking for a Power9 user to test an bug fix of a docker container which runs RStudio.

It would be great if someone could test the bug fix and post the results here (or in the github issue):

https://github.com/ppc64le/build-scripts/issues/131

The test is not much work, just installing (building) a docker container, starting an image and trying to start RStudio. Thats all:

https://github.com/ppc64le/build-scripts/tree/master/rstudio/Dockerfiles/v1.2.1335

THX :-)

Title: Re: RStudio desktop working on Raptor's power computer (ppc64le)?
Post by: FlyingBlackbird on February 21, 2020, 02:08:52 pm

Bump: It would be really great if if someone could do the simple test to be able to close the issue soon :-)

Title: Re: RStudio desktop working on Raptor's power computer (ppc64le)?
Post by: pocock on September 12, 2020, 01:50:03 pm

Did you have any luck with RStudio?

I also use both R and RStudio and I'm likely to try it in on this platform very shortly

Title: Re: RStudio desktop working on Raptor's power computer (ppc64le)?
Post by: FlyingBlackbird on September 14, 2020, 01:35:46 pm

Quote from: pocock on September 12, 2020, 01:50:03 pm

Did you have any luck with RStudio?

I also use both R and RStudio and I'm likely to try it in on this platform very shortly

I had no time so far to re-assemble my new workstation with the new planar :-(
So I still need some more time to test RStudio (Server)... (the bug was fixed BTW)

Title: Re: RStudio desktop working on Raptor's power computer (ppc64le)?
Post by: pocock on October 07, 2020, 06:48:19 am

RStudio requires qtwebengine

qtwebengine doesn't currently build for ppc64el, it may be waiting for patches in Chromium upstream (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-87252)