On the command line, you can load the RStudio Server module and see that fontconfig and freetype are already installed:
$ ml purge
$ ml RStudio-Server/2024.04.1+748-foss-2023b-Java-11-R-4.4.0
$ ml 2>&1| egrep -i "font|type"
34) freetype/2.13.2-GCCcore-13.2.0
37) fontconfig/2.14.2-GCCcore-13.2.0
However, when you actually run RStudio Server, it acts like those libraries are not present. For example, you can't build the systemfonts package from CRAN (this is already part of the R module, but it's just an example).
Also, I wanted to see if I could figure out which modules were loaded, from within rstudio server. I imagined I could look at the LOADEDMODULES environment variable (which I can do on the command line) but it is empty or not defined within RStudio Server.
On the command line, you can load the RStudio Server module and see that fontconfig and freetype are already installed:
However, when you actually run RStudio Server, it acts like those libraries are not present. For example, you can't build the
systemfontspackage from CRAN (this is already part of the R module, but it's just an example).Also, I wanted to see if I could figure out which modules were loaded, from within rstudio server. I imagined I could look at the LOADEDMODULES environment variable (which I can do on the command line) but it is empty or not defined within RStudio Server.
This is related to two slack conversations:
https://fhdata.slack.com/archives/CD3HGJHJT/p1722035956418049 https://fredhutch-scicomp.slack.com/archives/D1E549M55/p1722023487236639 (private conversation between Dan and John)
And a ticket:
https://fredhutch.happyfox.com/staff/ticket/14915