Hi guys, first of all thanks for developing such a great tool. I have little experience with KNIME and have just started working with it. But I can already see the potential that this software brings. Right now, I’m trying to get everything set up. So I installed KNIME on an Ubuntu server and successfully connected the Windows client. So I am able to configure some workflows in the client and run them on the server. I now want to add some R scripts to my workflow, so I first installed the required extension. Now I had difficulties to deal properly with the R path in the client. Namely, on our server we already have RStudio and the R package manager installed. The latter is used to install packages from our internal Gitlab server and official packages, the former is used to develop and run R scripts. When setting the R path in the KNIME client, it seems that we can only set a local path. With more than three developers who will be working with KNIME in the future, I want to avoid each building and maintaining their own R environment. Then it is preprogrammed that these drift apart. Is there no way to directly link the R environment on the server with the client? I’m sure I’m not the first one with this problem - how do you deal with it? Thanks!!

Setup KNIME with R running on server

mlauber71 November 3, 2022, 5:21pm 2

@ThoMi welcome to the KNIME forum. You could try and propagate an R version (and packages) thru the Conda Environment Propagation which you might distill into a YAML file:

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