Rstudio server for windows server 2012

[Jesus]

Hi there,

It is possible to use Rstudio server and Shiny server on windows server 2012?

I know that with W10 it is possible, as you can run ubuntu on Windows terminal, but what about windows server 2012?

Thanks!
Jesús

[mara]

I think the answer to your Q might be covered in the thread here:

Is it useful to run R studio DESKTOP on a Windows 12 server?

There should be no difference in terms of what resources are available to the R session whether you use RStudio Desktop or RStudio Server. That said, if you're attempting to run RStudio on a Windows machine, you're limited to RStudio Desktop as RStudio Server only runs on Linux machines. RStudio Server Pro is useful when you have a cluster of many machines, and want to control where new R sessions are spawned (so that new R sessions can be spawned on machines with relatively lower load). However, once the R session is launched, it behaves just as it would if you had a locally running instance of RStudio Desktop. This doesn't imply that RStudio Server will automatically distribute computati…