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Connecting to Data Sources with RStudio Workbench#

You can use the RStudio Professional Drivers to connect to external data sources.

Refer to the installation instructions to install the RStudio Professional Drivers on your RStudio Workbench, formerly RStudio Server Pro1, server.


  1. We have renamed RStudio Server Pro to RStudio Workbench. This change reflects the product’s growing support for a wide range of different development environments. RStudio Workbench enables R and Python data scientists to use their preferred IDE in a secure, scalable, and collaborative environment -- whether that is the RStudio IDE, JupyterLab, Jupyter Notebooks, or VS Code. We want RStudio Workbench to be the best single platform to support open source, code-first data science, whether your team is using R or Python. Please see our official Announcement and review our FAQ regarding the name change from RStudio Server Pro to RStudio Workbench.