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From: Ben Anderson <b.anderson@soton.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 10:37:06 +0000
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-# Using R/RStudio on the SVE service
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-What is the SVE?
-A windows [virtual desktop](https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/IT/SitePages/Services/SouthamptonVirtualEnvironment.aspx/)
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+# Using R/RStudio on the SVE service
+
+## What is the SVE?
+
+A windows [virtual desktop](https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/IT/SitePages/Services/SouthamptonVirtualEnvironment.aspx/)
+
+Use the Win 10 Student service as it has research & academic software suites such as RStudio etc. The Win 10 Staff service is a generic staff service intended for admin & professional staff use (for now).
+ 
+## Why would I use it?
+ 
+It hosts most of the applications you'll need including RStudio etc
+
+It offers easy access to [data folders such as J://](keepingData.md) as you are effectively working 'on campus'. This makes data loading fast. Well... faster than doing it over your home broadband.
+
+You can easily access your oneDrive folders.
+
+The virtual PC instance you log in to has reasonable memory allocation so unless you have huuuge datasets you shodl be OK.
+
+## Git
+Git is installed - yay!
+
+You will need to create your RSA key so that git (inside or outside RStudio) can talk to github/gitlab etc. This RSA key should no be persistent (it didn't used to be before the SVE upgrade).
+
+## RStudio in SVE
+
+### Packages
+If you need to add new packages use the install.packages() function. This seems to be able to bypass a permissons issue in C:/Apps/RLibraries which causes the normal the RStudio GUI/tab method to fail.
+
+Better yet use the new & improved loadPackages() function developed at SERG :-)
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