Posit Workbench collaborative editing (live cursor) during project sharing does not work.

Issue:

In Posit Workbench versions 2024.09 and 2024.12, you may encounter issues with collaborative editing, specifically regarding the live cursors not functioning correctly during project sharing. 

This is a known issue that will be addressed in future releases. In the interim, the recommended workaround is to update the configuration rserver.conf file to explicitly set the working directory, and then restart Workbench.

Steps to fix:

Open the rserver.conf file in your desired text editor:

For example

sudo vi /etc/rstudio/rserver.conf

Add the following line to the configuration file:

server-working-dir=/usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin

Save the file and exit the text editor.

Restart Posit Workbench for the changes to take effect:

sudo systemctl restart rstudio-server

After restarting, the collaborative editing server should start correctly, enabling live cursors and real-time collaboration when project sharing.