From 182cee9cb5daf6a03eeb0246d0c9ba1d1f7df287 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Anderson <b.anderson@soton.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 10:39:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update sve.md --- howTo/sve.md | 16 +++++++--------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/howTo/sve.md b/howTo/sve.md index 7c4c2ed..2618f54 100644 --- a/howTo/sve.md +++ b/howTo/sve.md @@ -4,27 +4,25 @@ 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). +**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 +1. It hosts most of the applications you'll need including RStudio etc +1. 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. +1. You can easily access your oneDrive folders. +1. The virtual PC instance you log in to has reasonable memory allocation so unless you have huuuge datasets you should be OK. -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). +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 now 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 :-) +Better yet use the [loadPackages() function](https://git.soton.ac.uk/SERG/workflow/-/blob/master/R/loadLibraries.R) developed at SERG :-) -- GitLab