The R Studio Lab VRE is conceived to provide its users with a development environment for R. This development environment is powered by RStudio® and it is integrated with social networking facilities and a shared workspace, enabling VRE members to put in place collaborative working practices. In addition to the basic functionalities, as a workspace for sharing objects of interest, a social networking area for supporting the discussions among members and a user management facility for managing membership, this VRE is specifically equipped with the following capability:

 

• R Studio as-a-Service: a facility enabling users to access a fully-fledged RStudio® working environment directly from the VRE. This environment is integrated with the rest of VRE\VLab facilities, e.g. it is possible to use files from the workspace and to store new files into the workspace