How to Install Rstudio?

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I just installed Bazzite-KDE and I’m coming from Nobara 39.

I use R and Rstudio in my work, and in the Fedora world Rstudio is easily installed from the command line.

I tried to install Rstudio in the Fedora container in Bazzite (“sudo dnf install rstudio”), and it doesn’t seem to work (I made sure to be in the container not in the host). The installation appears to download and install itself and all dependencies. R on the command line runs fine. But Rstudio the graphical application is not to be found in the launcher.

Am I missing something basic?

ps Unfortunately Rstudio doesn’t have a Flatpak.

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Solved!

The key was clicking “Add to Menu” on the list of Applications in BoxBuddy.

As a bonus, it’s a good idea to install R-CoprManager which allows binary installation of R packages. There’s a lot more detail, including video tutorials to find on this GitHub issue page.

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Wanted to update this post. I’ve since also tried rstudio-server in an Ubuntu 24.04 distrobox. Works great with the repository here.

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