Accessing R Studio on apollo from a Mac, Linux or UNIX system from outside the college

Apple Mac, Linux and UNIX systems all have a command line ssh client and you can use port forwarding over ssh instead of VPN to access the R Studio server on apollo from outside College; first, open a terminal and connect to apollo with the following command:

ssh -p portnumber -L 8787:155.198.192.143:8787 username@apollo.ma.ic.ac.uk

replacing portnumber with the non-standard port number you have been given for apollo and username with your own username and log in as you usually do using your College username and password. This will set up both an ordinary interactive ssh session as well as mapping the R Studio server's connection to your own computer's local IP address. Now you can point your browser at:

http://localhost:8787

to access the R Studio server interface as shown above.