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Teaching and learning with RStudio Cloud | RStudio

Learn about RStudio Cloud and most recent developments, particularly with respect to teaching with it.

RStudio Cloud | Viewing Learning Work | Instructor View

As an Admin (or Moderator) of your course space, you and your fellow instructors have access to all projects in your space. You can open student projects from any projects listing, or to see all the projects of a given student, go to their profile page by clicking on their name from the Members page.

Note that if you do open a student’s project while they also have it open, they will be temporarily disconnected from the project.

You can also view how much time your students have spent using Cloud. Simply visit the Usage area of your space, where you can see aggregate usage data for the entire class, or for an individual student and their projects.

ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.

Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.

There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.

We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.

RStudio Cloud | Tuning Resources | Instructor View

By default, each project is allocated 1 GB of RAM and 1 CPU, and can execute in the background for up to 1 hour. If your plan allows it, you can increase the memory, CPU or background execution time allocated to a project. To do so, open Project settings, go to the Resources panel and adjust the allocation.

Note that copies of a project will inherit its resource settings. However, the effective allocation for the copy will be limited by the maxiumum allowed by the account that “owns” the new copy.

The usage hours consumed by a project in a given amount of time depend on the resources allocated to the project, according to the following formula: (RAM + CPUs allocated) / 2 x hours.

On disk, each project is allocated up to 20GB for its files, data, and packages.

The maximum size of a file that can be uploaded to a project is 500MB.

ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.

Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.

There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.

We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.

RStudio Cloud | Troubleshooting | Instructor View

Relaunch Project If you are working on a project, and it fails to load or becomes completely unresponsive, you can relaunch the project. Depending on the underlying problem, relaunching the project may fix it and let you continue.

Allocate Additional Memory memory-gaugeRunning out of memory while working on a project may be the cause of a variety of errors.

The project memory gauge will give you an idea of what percentage of available memory your project is currently using. The gauge updates roughly every ten seconds, so it may not show the exact usage at the current moment. Note that reclaiming unused memory is controlled by R and the operating system - you may see uncanny fluctuations in the gauge as the system manages memory.

ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.

Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.

There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.

We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.

RStudio Cloud | Setting Up a Base Project | Instructor View

You can make all projects in a space begin with a default set of files and packages. You do this by defining a Base Project for the space.

Create a new project and add any packages or files you want all projects created in the space to start with. Set the project’s access so that everyone in the space can view the project.

Go to the Space Settings page and select the project as the Base Project. Once you select a project as your Base Project, it will no longer be included in the projects listing for the space. To access it, choose the Edit command from the Space Settings page.

Changes to the Base Project are not retroactive. Changes will not be applied to any projects already created - the changes will only apply to future projects created via the New Project action.

ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.

Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.

There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.

We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.

RStudio Cloud | Roles | Instructor View

Each member of a space is assigned a role to determine what they are able to do within the space. The available roles are:

Admin: can manage users, view, edit and manage all projects and view space usage data.

Moderator: can view, edit and manage all projects, and view space usage data.

Contributor: can create, edit and manage their own projects. This is the default.

Viewer: can view projects shared with everyone in the space. A viewer cannot create or save copies of projects.

Members are assigned an initial role when they are invited to or join a space, but roles can be changed by an Admin at any time. When you invite an individual member to a Invitation Required space, you set the initial role in the Add Member dialog box. When someone joins via a sharing link, their initial role is set to the current Initial Role setting in the members options panel. Admins can update a user’s role via the role selector in the members list.

Changing permissions lets you fine-tune the Contributor and Viewer roles. The permissions are:

Contributors can see the members list: enables Contributors to see who can access the space.

Contributors can make their projects visible to all members: enables Contributors to share their projects with everyone in the space.

Contributors can change project resources: enables Contributors to change RAM and CPU settings on their projects.

Viewers can see the members list: enables Viewers to see who can acess the space.

ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.

Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.

There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.

We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.

RStudio Cloud | Reusing a Workspace | Instructor View

One approach to reusing a space is to remove the current cohort of students from the space, and reuse the same space with the next cohort. If you are an Admin of a space, you can remove any member from that space.

Go to the Members area of the space. For the member you would like to remove, press the Delete icon. You will be prompted to confirm that you would like to remove them from the space, and to choose whether to leave their projects behind in the space, or move them to their personal space.

You can also remove members programatically via the Cloud API using the rscloud package.

Another option is to create a new space from your current course space using the Copy Space action.

If you’d like to re-use materials from a space, e.g. to teach a new cohort of students, use the Copy Space command. All projects shared with everyone in the original space will be copied over to the new space. Members of the original space are not copied over - you will be the only initial member of the new space.

ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.

Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.

There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.

We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.

RStudio Cloud | Project Types | Instructor View

A project is the fundamental unit of work on RStudio Cloud. It encapsulates your R code, packages and data files and provides isolation from other analyses. If you are familiar with projects in the desktop RStudio IDE, an RStudio Cloud project is the same thing, plus some additional metadata for access and sharing.

To create a new project from scratch, simply press the New Project button from the Projects area. Your new project will open in the RStudio IDE.

To create a new project from an existing git repository, press the down arrow on the right side of the New Project button, and choose ‘New Project from Git Repo’ from the menu that appears. Note that your git credentials need to be entered each time you create a new project and are only cached for 15 minutes by default.

To create a Jupyter Project, press the down arrow on the right side of the New Project button, and choose ‘New Jupyter Project’ from the menu that appears.

A new Jupyter project will be created and deployed. Once deployed, you will see the Jupyter hub tree view with a welcome.ipynb notebook that contains information about getting started with Jupyter.

ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.

Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.

There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.

We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.

RStudio Cloud | Overview | Instructor View

ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.

Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.

There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.

We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.

RStudio Cloud | Inviting Co-instructors and Teaching Assistants | Instructor View

After creating a space, go to the Members area to manage its membership. You can add members to your space in three ways:

To add members one by one, choose the Invitation Required option, and send invitations to each person you’d like to add to the space via the Add Member button. Note that for security reasons, the invitation is good for 7 days from the time that it is sent. To allow many people to join the space, choose the Sharing Link option, copy the sharing link and then share that link with all the people you’d like to join the space, either via an email or by posting the link on a web page. Keep in mind that anyone with that link will be able to join your space. If you would like to disable a link you previously shared, choose Reset Sharing Link; this will prevent any additional people from joining the space using that link. Space membership can also be managed programatically. See API Access from R in the Advanced Topics section below for details.

Note that you can switch the access option at any time - a common approach is to initially set the access option to Sharing Link, post the sharing link, then after all the people you want to join the space initially have done so, switch access to Invitation Only. The original sharing link will no longer allow additional people to join the space, but you can add any new members individually.

ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.

Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.

There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.

We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.

RStudio Cloud | Invite Learners | Instructor View

As you did to invite your co-instructors, go to the space’s Members area to invite your students to your course space. The easiest approach is to enable access via a sharing link.

• Click on the Sharing link option in the Access section
• Set the Initial Role to Contributor
• Click on the Copy Sharing Link action

You can then distribute the sharing link to all your students via a course web page or email. Once all your students have joined the space, you can either reset the sharing link (which will disable access via the previous sharing link), or set Access to “Invitation Required” to ensure that nobody joins the class later without your permission. See the Members section in Shared Spaces above for more details and alternate methods for adding students to your space.

Note that each student must have their own RStudio Cloud account. When they attempt to access your course space for the first time, they will be prompted to log in, or to sign up for an account if they don’t already have one. If your organization is using SSO, account creation will happen automatically when they log in the first time.

At this point, you and your students should be all set.

ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.

Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.

There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.

We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.

RStudio Cloud | Creating an Assignment | Instructor View

A good way to create assignments for your students is to make a project for each assignment, and populate it with the files and packages you would like each student to have when they begin the assignment. When you are ready to reveal an assignment to your students, open the project and do the following:

• Click on the Project Settings button (the gear in the upper right)
• Select the Access panel
• Set the project access so it can be viewed by everyone in the space
• Check “Make this project an assignment”

When the student opens an assignment project (either via the projects listing, or via a direct link to the project), RStudio Cloud will automatically make a copy for them. To convey this special behavior, assignments are displayed a bit differently, both for you and for your students.

You can see the students’ copies of the assignment by clicking on the “View n derived projects” link that will appear with your original project.

Note that changes you make to the original assignment will not be applied to any student copies already created. The changes will only apply to future copies of the assignment.

ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.

Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.

There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.

We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.

RStudio Cloud | {rscloud} Package | Instructor View

You can access RStudio Cloud’s API to manage space members programatically using the rscloud package.

You will need to create client credentials to use the package. To do so, click on your icon/name in the header to reveal the User panel, then click on Credentials. This will take you to the Credentials page of RStudio User Settings, where you can create and manage your client credentials.

Posit Cloud | Creating a Shared Space | Instructor View

A shared space is an area where a group of people can collaborate together - only the members of a shared space can access the space and its contents.

To create a shared space, go to the navigation sidebar (click the menu icon at the upper left if needed) and choose New Space, then follow the on-screen instructions.

ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.

Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.

There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.

We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.

Lou Bajuk & Kevin Bolger | Why Data Science in the Cloud? | RStudio (2020)

As business and organizational needs expand, a centralized ecosystem such as the cloud is needed to securely store and access data, conduct analyses, and share results.

We’ll share some examples of what it means to do data science in the cloud and discuss some problems that users may face along the way, and the solutions that RStudio products can provide. We’ll also discuss best practices for migrating to a cloud environment.

What you’ll learn:

• What are the benefits of working in a cloud environment?
• What are the different cloud environments available?
• How do I learn which is the best fit for my organization?
• What should I consider when migrating my data science infrastructure to the cloud?