R Studio Server cannot save or export files larger than 1GB

RStudio IDE
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Hi,

I just started using R Studio Server on AWS EC2 (with 32GB of ram) , and I've been constantly running into trouble working with files larger than 1GB. When ever I try to save an .Rdata file larger than 1GB, I get the following error:

Error in save(brm_violxses4lv, file = "brm_violxses4lv.Rdata") :
error writing to connection

I just read in a forum post from a few years back that memory for RCloud is capped at 1GB. Perhaps it is still the same? Currently, I have several .Rdata files in my ephermeral storage, but I cannot save any of them. Each took me about a day and $14 to fit. Is there any way I can save and download them to my PC? I would really appreciate any workarounds if there are any.

Thank you.

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Rstudio Cloud is not the same as RStudio Server, the first one is a cloud service hosted on RStudio's servers, whereas RStudio server is a software that you can install in your own infrastructure (or cloud computing services like AWS).
Can you clarify to which one are you referring to?

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Sorry about that. It is RStudio Server. I set it up using Louis Aslett's RStudio Server AMI. (I modfied my initial post accordingly).
http://www.louisaslett.com/RStudio_AMI/

version
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platform x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
arch x86_64
os linux-gnu
system x86_64, linux-gnu
status
major 3
minor 6.0
year 2019
month 04
day 26
svn rev 76424
language R
version.string R version 3.6.0 (2019-04-26)
nickname Planting of a Tree

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I've never used that particular AMI but this issue very frequently is due to the use of a reverse proxy like nginx, can you confirm if that is the case?

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hmm... In fact, I don't know. I haven't set anything up, but I'll look into it. Thank you.

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In case the AMI is using a reverse proxy you have to edit the settings, for example, for Nginx, you have to edit this file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf by adding a line like this

client_max_body_size 2000M;

And then restart the service

sudo systemctl restart nginx
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