Quick to run, free and ephemeral RStudio instance on Gitpod

Triggered by an assignment my son had to do for one of his university courses — and given the fairly light weight laptop we have him work with — I decided to make a cloud based RStudio environment to him. I have worked with Gitpod over the past six months, creating environments for Oracle Database, Backstage, Open Telemetry, Oracle Cloud client tools, Go development, Apache Kafka, Dapr, Redis & NodeJS workshop, MongoDB and several other technologies. They have in common that these environments are very easy to run — and very easy to reset/rerun as well…