Assistance in setting up RStudio on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS hosted on AWS

Hi All
I have installed RStudio on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

Followed the instruction on RStudio install.

I am reciving the below error

ubuntu@ip-172-31-43-58:~$ sudo systemctl status rstudio-connect

● rstudio-connect.service - RStudio Connect

Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rstudio-connect.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2018-10-31 12:31:52 UTC; 6s ago

Process: 22637 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c exec /opt/rstudio-connect/bin/connect --config /etc/rstudio-connect/rstudio-connect.gcfg >> /var/log/rstudio-connect.log 2>&1 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Main PID: 22637 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Tasks: 0 (limit: 1152)

CGroup: /system.slice/rstudio-connect.service

What is the contents of the log file?

Hi
Sorry for the delayed respons.
Some context I am been tasked to setup a rstudio-connect on AWS.
I got as far as setting up the rstudio-connect.
Stuck on the cofiguraton.
is there a step by step artical on doing the setup.
I tried using the one on rstudio. New to Ubuntu as well.
See below log file I tried a new install.
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Resource limits: {"nofile":{"soft":1000000,"hard":1000000}}
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Starting RStudio Connect v1.6.8.2-12
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Loaded server configuration from /etc/rstudio-connect/rstudio-connect.gcfg
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Using data directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating database directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect/db
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Using database directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect/db
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating metrics directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect/metrics/rrd
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating applications directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect/apps
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating application bookmarks directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect/bookmarks
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating document output directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect/reports
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating document customization directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect/overrides
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating manual document customization directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect/overrides/manual
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating document variant customizations directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect/overrides/variant
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating R library directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect/R
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Checking ownership and permissions for the R library directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect/R
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating Packrat cache directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect/packrat
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Checking ownership and permissions for the Packrat cache directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect/packrat
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating jobs directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect/jobs
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating jobs-spool directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect/jobs-spool
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating bundle directory: /var/lib/rstudio-connect/bundles
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating base bind mount directory: /opt/rstudio-connect/mnt
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating application bind mount directory: /opt/rstudio-connect/mnt/app
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating application bookmarks bind mount directory: /opt/rstudio-connect/mnt/bookmarks
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating document output bind mount directory: /opt/rstudio-connect/mnt/report
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating R library bind mount directory: /opt/rstudio-connect/mnt/R
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating packrat bind mount directory: /opt/rstudio-connect/mnt/packrat
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating source package bind mount directory: /opt/rstudio-connect/mnt/source-packages
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating empty bind mount directory: /opt/rstudio-connect/mnt/empty
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Creating tmp bind mount directory: /opt/rstudio-connect/mnt/tmp
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Identified 1 CPUs; configuring Server.CompilationConcurrency: 1
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Configuring licensing to use a local license...
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Could not find R on the PATH: exec: "R": executable file not found in $PATH
2018/11/05 14:41:03 Error: Unable to use R on this system: Could not locate an R installation

Did you install R on the server? For a quick test you could use sudo apt-get install r-base-dev. However, it is recommended to compile your own versions of R.

HI Is there step by instruction that is esier to setup.

See e.g. here