Link to rstudio without knowing username?

[jameshowison]

Context

In sending links to demos for faculty I'm encountering a few that are focused on Rstudio, but I don't seem to be able to give them a link that opens directly in Rstudio.

The documentation [/howto/environment]((../blob/main/admin/howto/environment/index.md) shows:

https://<your-hub>.pilot.2i2c.cloud/user/<your-username>/<your-interface>

Where I would just substitute rstudio for <your-interface> but I don't know people's username. Is there a way to point them to rstudio (after their login) directly?

Searching a bit I tried the Binder option ?urlpath=rstudio and I tried a few other things (including leaving ` in the URL and trying random string there (reasoning that it might ask people to log in?). I saw that directly opening a file in Rstudio via a URL is hard: https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/9925 but that shouldn't affect going to Rstudio without opening a file?

Proposal

https://<your-hub>.pilot.2i2c.cloud/<your-interface>

(or some other predictable URL)

should ask the user to login and take them directly to the rstudio instance (without opening a file, although clearly that would be nice in the medium term :).

Updates and actions

No response

[yuvipanda]

You can use https://<your-hub>.pilot.2i2c.cloud/hub/user-redirect/<your-interface>. Try that out? This is the format nbgitpuller uses, for example

[damianavila]

Closing as answered, please reopen if you disagree.