R studio Chromebook via new Linus beta

jcblum · November 4, 2018, 9:24pm

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RStudio desktop on a Chromebook without Crouton - using new Linux Beta option RStudio IDE

Hey - just thought I would share my success with installing RStudio on a chromebook (Pixelbook to be exact). I'm a Physician/Engineer (Practicing research engineer and training Medical Geneticist) and have lurked on here a long time, but registered today to post this for others. I love this pixelbook - I've found workarounds for most things that had me using Windows devices in the past. For most big data/R/Rstudio work I can (and will) use cloud computing and my Pixelbook is great for remote desktop work like that. However...The ONLY downfall is my data science stuff can't be done on the chromebook locally - at least not easily. My wife also uses RStudio in grad school and was strongly …