Issue with R-studio Server installation in RedHat

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@lianouw

"Unable to find an installation of R on the system (which R didn't return valid output); Unable to locate R binary by scanning standard locations"

Did you install R already from the EPEL software repository? (see FAQ below for disambiguation between R and RStudio)

Differentiating R from RStudio

Aside: goals for this thread

I'm hoping this will help people disambiguate R from RStudio, and also help with getting questions in the right category. This is a bit of a mashup of the times I've tried to explain this in individual threads, so please feel free to add to this topic for further clarification/point out corrections, etc.

Before putting a code-related question in the #rstudio-ide category or using the rstudio tag, it's helpful to ask yourself: Does this work in the regular R GUI, but not when you're in RStudio? If you're using RStudio, you're using R — RStudio is just an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) in which you are using the R language. (On of my favourite fi…