![]() A physical laptop is a lot easier to troubleshoot if something goes awry. Unable to log in, a convoluted panic to increase the disk size occurred. ![]() More risky - keeping the only copy of your data on a cloud server is not a good idea, as I learnt to my cost when a VM’s hard disk filled up.For a proper workstation with decent RAM etc, you are looking at more like 30 dollars a month, which if you’re running for 2 years is around $700 that you could have spent on a laptop that can do more things. More expensive - running RStudio Server permanently in the cloud can be done for as little as 5 dollars a month, but for that you get a machine about as powerful as a Raspberry Pi.Yes, the convenience of running RStudio in a browser and being able to launch different configurations is great, but it wasn’t a total desktop replacement for the following reasons: To date I’ve treated RStudio Server as a temporary UI whilst setting up scheduled scripts and so forth, and for running workshops for students with pre-installed packages. Whilst there are lots of other solutions around for hosting RStudio Server in the cloud, including some of my own, I don’t believe they are a serious replacement for a desktop station running RStudio. ![]() TL DR - A how-to on making RStudio Server run on a Chromebook that automatically backs up data and configuration settings to Google Cloud Storage is on the googleComputeEngineR website here. I recently got an Asus Chromebook Flip with which I’m very happy, but it did make me realise that if a Chromebook was to replace my normal desktop as my primary workstation, my RStudio Server setup would need to be more cloud native than was available up until now.
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