Purpose

To try out RStudio without installing it on your own machine or a server somewhere.

Prerequisites

You will need to be running RVM in order to use this.

1. bundle install
2. vagrant box add lucid64 http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid64.box
3. vagrant up
4. vagrant ssh
5. sudo passwd rstudio (set whatever password you like)

I've seen some issues if you have vagrant installed under multiple RVM rubies or gemsets. If you get an error in rubygems.rb like 'Could not find RubyGem vagrant', then use 'bundle exec vagrant up' and 'bundle exec vagrant ssh' instead.

Use

Vagrant is configured to forward localhost:8787 to the virtual machine. Point your browser at http://localhost:8787/.

RStudio uses the system login for authentication. Vagrant creates a user named 'vagrant', but with a randomized password, so that won't help.

The rstudio recipe creates a new user called 'rstudio', but without a password. That's why steps 3 and 4 are needed, above. That password is how you log in to rstudio.

If you want extra users in the virtual machine, you can just use the Linux 'useradd' command.