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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For anyone landing here after googling something like “RStudio Bluefin / Aurora install”; here are the steps I followed and that are essentially being described here:

  1. Open BoxBuddy and make a container for either Ubuntu or Fedora
  2. Install R in that container how you would normally install it on Ubuntu / Fedora
  3. Download the Rstudio installer .deb / .rpm file from the Posit website
  4. In the BoxBuddy Gui select “Install .deb / .rpm file” depending on which OS you used and install the Rstudio file.
  5. Select “View applications” in the BoxBuddy GUI for your chosen OS
  6. RStudio should be there and next to it there should be a button saying “Add to Menu”. Click it.
  7. You should now find Rstudio in your regular app menu. In my case it was called RStudio (on Fedora 40) because my container has Fedora 40.

Sorry for the captain obvious explanation but I know something like this would have helped me so there it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯