Common dependencies needed for RStudio Connect

If you are installing RStudio Connect on an offline server, you may need dependencies installed in order for Connect to install correctly. Below you will find a list of common dependencies for major distributions – note that your requirements may be different depending on the system you’re installing on.

In general, we recommend installing the latest versions of these dependencies available; however, you may find that older versions work as well.

All operating systems

On all operating systems, you will need to have R installed. You can find the necessary binaries or source code here.

RedHat/CentOS

• rrdtool

make
gcc
gcc-c++
libcurl-devel
libxml2-devel
java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel  # may require also executing `R CMD javareconf`
openssl-devel
texlive-*  # VERY large dependency, but needed to render PDF documents from R Markdown

Debian/Ubuntu

• libc6
• rrdtool

Recommended Packages

The following system dependencies are required by many common R packages and nearly all deployments will need to provide these. These package names may vary slightly between different versions of Ubuntu.

build-essential
libcurl4-gnutls-dev 
openjdk-7-* # may require also executing `R CMD javareconf`
libxml2-dev
libssl-dev
texlive-full # very large dependency, but needed to render PDF documents from R Markdown

Supplemental Packages

There are additional system dependencies that may be required for some R packages depending on the types of R packages your users are leveraging. You could consider providing these packages for your users now, or wait until they are requested.

An up-to-date resource to help understand the system dependencies of various R packages in Ubuntu is available at https://github.com/rstudio/shinyapps-package-dependencies.

libgmp10-dev
libgsl0-dev
libnetcdf6 
libnetcdf-dev 
netcdf-bin
libdigest-hmac-perl
libgmp-dev 
libgmp3-dev
libgl1-mesa-dev 
libglu1-mesa-dev
libglpk-dev
tdsodbc 
freetds-bin 
freetds-common 
freetds-dev
odbc-postgresql
libtiff-dev
libsndfile1 
libsndfile1-dev 
libtiff-dev
tk8.5 
tk8.5-dev 
tcl8.5 
tcl8.5-dev
libgsl0-dev
libv8-dev