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RStudio products, including Cloud, and on-demand Server-pro and Connect on Azure #165

Open maurolepore opened 4 years ago

maurolepore commented 4 years ago

Today I met Pete Knast (pete@rstudio.com) from RStudio to share feedback about RStudio Cloud. RStudio Cloud helps us run the ds-incubator meetups, so it felt right to help them improve the produce. But the chat went beyond RStudio Cloud; we also discussed other products we might want to learn more about. Below copy all links.

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RStudio Server Pro Standard for Azure is an on-demand, commercially-licensed integrated development environment (IDE) for the Microsoft Azure Cloud. It offers all of the capabilities found in the popular RStudio open source IDE plus turnkey convenience, enhanced security, the ability to manage multiple R versions and sessions, and more.

This could help someone like @2diiKlaus to get a powerful computing environment if and only whenever he needs it.

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RStudio Team ... includes RStudio Server Pro, RStudio Package Manager, and RStudio Connect.

Someone like @jdhoffa, or @koopmand may want to know more about this products because banks may want to buy them -- particularly the Package Manager. Nichole Monhait (nichole@rstudio.com) from RStudio would be happy to show how this works.

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RStudio Cloud Instructor offers ... a deep discount for instructional use because ... for you to teach with RStudio Cloud.

We can continue to use the free version but -- if we qualify -- this offer seems inexpensive (~ $15/month).

cjyetman commented 4 years ago

Cool that you'll finally be able to use RStudio Cloud with a decent amount of RAM. That was an unfortunate deal breaker for something I was working on a year ago.

2diiKlaus commented 4 years ago

Yes indeed, that is pretty cool and for sure an option for all data prep work we are doing with the large files. @Clare2D that might also be interesting for all historical work.

@maurolepore do you know how much this would roughly cost if we let's say use it for ~8 hrs/month, 32+ GB RAM

cjyetman commented 4 years ago

8GB RAM appears to be the limit, even for the paid accounts... but that's much better than the 1GB limit it has always had.

$34/month for non-profit orgs https://rstudio.cloud/plans/premium?discount=nonprofit

Clare2D commented 4 years ago

That does indeed sound interesting. Do we need this though? I guess for the funds work it would be most relevant? How does this work exactly? We open a project in the paid version of RStudio Cloud and it has more capacity to run a repository of our choice?

maurolepore commented 4 years ago

To access a powerful computing environment on demand, I suspect the best product might not be RStudio Cloud but instead RStudio Server Pro on Azure.

How exactly it works I don't know but I would be happy to learn more then report.

(BTW, we used to have a RStudio server installed in an Azure virtual machine, but the computer we configured had little power and was not on-demand; we used it little so we removed it.)

cjyetman commented 4 years ago

Just be careful everyone... the benefit of using these paid versions of RStudio Cloud is not access to a high powered machine... in most cases, your laptop will have better specs than these cloud versions.

If you're looking for high spec machines to run things, then RStudio Server Pro Standard for Azure (or RStudio Server Pro on some other server infrastructure) might help, if the hardware your Azure is running on has enough capacity to create a virtual machine with the specs you desire.

maurolepore commented 4 years ago

I confirm that you may configure RStudio Server Pro on Azure beyond the limit or RStudio Cloud:

  1. I logged in at https://portal.azure.com/
  2. Searched for RStudio; found and clicked on RStudio Server Pro Standard for Azure
  3. Clicked on Start with a pre-set configuration and got this:

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(Based on these instructions.)

Notice that the recommended configuration for batch processing has modest amount of memmory.

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maurolepore commented 4 years ago

We learned about RStudio Team. Some tools seem useful and many of them are free, or we could setup free alternatives. I may show people some of those tools in ds-incubator meetups. If we then love some of those tools we could subscribe for a free trial, and eventually consider buying what works best for us.