Analyze with Rock

What is Rock?

Rock is OBiBa’s R analysis server. It manages R server analysis sessions and is the computation engine of Opal.

Features

Rock provides a REST API to execute R operations on the server side, in a stateful R session. Rock servers can be discovered or can self-register to build clusters for distributed computations.

• REST API: see rockr for an R client.
• Stateful R sessions, based on Rserve.
• Secure, thanks to RAppArmor.
• Scalable, with service discovery and self-registration.

Being interoperable and reusable, Rock follows the FAIR principles for reproducible science. Read the Rock introduction for more details.

Download

Rock is a Java application and runs on any platform with a Java virtual machine.

• Debian / Ubuntu: use the Debian package repository.
• Fedora / RHEL: use the RPM package repository.
• Docker: images give a reproducible R environment; see Docker image installation.

Packages are also on the GitHub releases page. See the installation guide and the configuration guide.

Try Rock

The demo server is accessible with the rockr R package:

• administrator / password