diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/rstudio/preview.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/rstudio/preview.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 55c83ca85a64..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/rstudio/preview.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,119 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, fetchFromGitHub, makeDesktopItem, cmake, boost, zlib
-, openssl, R, qtbase, qtxmlpatterns, qtsensors, qtwebengine, qtwebchannel
-, libuuid, hunspellDicts, unzip, ant, jdk, gnumake, makeWrapper, pandoc
-, llvmPackages
-}:
-
-let
-  rev = "f79330d4";
-  ginVer = "2.1.2";
-  gwtVer = "2.8.1";
-in
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "RStudio-preview-${rev}";
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake unzip ant jdk makeWrapper pandoc ];
-
-  buildInputs = [ boost zlib openssl R qtbase qtxmlpatterns qtsensors
-                  qtwebengine qtwebchannel libuuid ];
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "rstudio";
-    repo = "rstudio";
-    inherit rev;
-    sha256 = "0v3vzqjp74c3m4h9l6w2lrdnjqaimdjzbf7vhnlxj2qa0lwsnykb";
-  };
-
-  # Hack RStudio to only use the input R and provided libclang.
-  patches = [ ./r-location.patch ./clang-location.patch ];
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace src/cpp/core/r_util/REnvironmentPosix.cpp --replace '@R@' ${R}
-    substituteInPlace src/cpp/core/libclang/LibClang.cpp \
-      --replace '@clang@' ${llvmPackages.clang.cc} \
-      --replace '@libclang.so@' ${llvmPackages.clang.cc.lib}/lib/libclang.so
-  '';
-
-  ginSrc = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/rstudio-buildtools/gin-${ginVer}.zip";
-    sha256 = "16jzmljravpz6p2rxa87k5f7ir8vs7ya75lnfybfajzmci0p13mr";
-  };
-
-  gwtSrc = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/rstudio-buildtools/gwt-${gwtVer}.zip";
-    sha256 = "19x000m3jwnkqgi6ic81lkzyjvvxcfacw2j0vcfcaknvvagzhyhb";
-  };
-
-  hunspellDictionaries = with stdenv.lib; filter isDerivation (attrValues hunspellDicts);
-
-  mathJaxSrc = fetchurl {
-    url = https://s3.amazonaws.com/rstudio-buildtools/mathjax-26.zip;
-    sha256 = "0wbcqb9rbfqqvvhqr1pbqax75wp8ydqdyhp91fbqfqp26xzjv6lk";
-  };
-
-  rsconnectSrc = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "rstudio";
-    repo = "rsconnect";
-    rev = "984745d8";
-    sha256 = "037z0y32k1gdda192y5qn5hi7wp8wyap44mkjlklrgcqkmlcylb9";
-  };
-
-  preConfigure =
-    ''
-      GWT_LIB_DIR=src/gwt/lib
-
-      mkdir -p $GWT_LIB_DIR/gin/${ginVer}
-      unzip ${ginSrc} -d $GWT_LIB_DIR/gin/${ginVer}
-
-      unzip ${gwtSrc}
-      mkdir -p $GWT_LIB_DIR/gwt
-      mv gwt-${gwtVer} $GWT_LIB_DIR/gwt/${gwtVer}
-
-      mkdir dependencies/common/dictionaries
-      for dict in ${builtins.concatStringsSep " " hunspellDictionaries}; do
-        for i in "$dict/share/hunspell/"*; do
-          ln -sv $i dependencies/common/dictionaries/
-        done
-      done
-
-      unzip ${mathJaxSrc} -d dependencies/common/mathjax-26
-
-      mkdir -p dependencies/common/pandoc
-      cp ${pandoc}/bin/pandoc dependencies/common/pandoc/
-
-      cp -r ${rsconnectSrc} dependencies/common/rsconnect
-      pushd dependencies/common
-      ${R}/bin/R CMD build -d --no-build-vignettes rsconnect
-      popd
-    '';
-
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
-  cmakeFlags = [ "-DRSTUDIO_TARGET=Desktop" "-DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE=$NIX_QT5_TMP/bin/qmake" ];
-
-  desktopItem = makeDesktopItem {
-    name = name;
-    exec = "rstudio %F";
-    icon = "rstudio";
-    desktopName = "RStudio Preview";
-    genericName = "IDE";
-    comment = meta.description;
-    categories = "Development;";
-    mimeType = "text/x-r-source;text/x-r;text/x-R;text/x-r-doc;text/x-r-sweave;text/x-r-markdown;text/x-r-html;text/x-r-presentation;application/x-r-data;application/x-r-project;text/x-r-history;text/x-r-profile;text/x-tex;text/x-markdown;text/html;text/css;text/javascript;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;";
-  };
-
-  postInstall = ''
-      wrapProgram $out/bin/rstudio --suffix PATH : ${gnumake}/bin
-      mkdir $out/share
-      cp -r ${desktopItem}/share/applications $out/share
-      mkdir $out/share/icons
-      ln $out/rstudio.png $out/share/icons
-  '';
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib;
-    { description = "Set of integrated tools for the R language";
-      homepage = https://www.rstudio.com/;
-      license = licenses.agpl3;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ averelld ];
-      platforms = platforms.linux;
-    };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 00b7ebc3502a..8ebb801c3a86 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -19497,10 +19497,6 @@ in
     boost = boost166;
     llvmPackages = llvmPackages_7;
   };
-  rstudio-preview = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/editors/rstudio/preview.nix {
-    boost = boost166;
-    llvmPackages = llvmPackages_7;
-  };
 
   rsync = callPackage ../applications/networking/sync/rsync (config.rsync or {});
   rrsync = callPackage ../applications/networking/sync/rsync/rrsync.nix {};