Running R on HiperGator

The problem

How can I run R on HiperGator within my terminal? The interactive RStudio server works okay, but whenever you request a longer running time or more memory, you will wait much longer in queue. I would prefer to just run R CMD BATCH within my terminal.

Solution

Update: just use module load R. No longer need to next steps.

It is probably documented somewhere by HiperGator. I just could not find it easily.

Here are the steps I followed.

1. Login to HiperGator terminal, install miniforge and mamba
2. Exit terminal and login back again
3. In terminal, run mamba create -n nameofmyenvi r-essentials r-base
   • add additional packages you want to install, e..g, r-torch
   • or install later with mamba install cuda-toolkit=11.8 pytorch
4. mamba activate nameofmyenvi
5. In terminal, type R and now you should be able to open R
   • If running long time jobs, use tmux with module load tmux, then tmux