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author: Sam White
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date: 2018-10-02 17:05:04+00:00
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slug: installation-microsoft-machine-learning-server-microsoft-r-open-on-emuroadrunner-r-studio-server
title: Installation - Microsoft Machine Learning Server (Microsoft R Open) on Emu/Roadrunner
  R Studio Server
categories:
  - 2018
  - Miscellaneous
tags:
  - emu
  - Microsoft R Open
  - MRO
  - R
  - R Studio
  - roadrunner
---

Steven recently saw an announcement that Microsoft R Open now handles multi-threaded processing (default R does not), so we were interested in trying it out. I installed MLR/MRO on Emu/Roadrunner (Apple Xserve; Ubuntu 16.04). [Followed the Microsoft installation directions for Ubuntu](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/machine-learning-server/install/machine-learning-server-linux-install). In retrospect, I think I could've just installed MRO, but this gets the job done as well and won't hurt anything.

I've set both Emu & Roadrunner R Studio Server to use this installation of R by changing the `/etc/restudio/rserver.conf` file to the following:


    
    <code>
    # Server Configuration File
    
    # Use Microsoft R Open instead of default R version.
    # Comment out and restart R Studio Server (sudo rstudio-server restart)
    # to restore default R version.
    
    rsession-which-r=/opt/microsoft/ropen/3.4.3/lib64/R/bin/R
    </code>



I have confirmed that R Studio Server on both machines starts up and is using MRO instead of the default version of R.