I currently use RStudio server to do analysis from the RStudio IDE in my browser- while all the client-sensitive data and computation happens in a remote box. Allows me to play with graphs on my browser as well,.
It looks like Plotly's advantage is in sharing the plots easily.
That's cool. Does your company set up this server version or is this something that you manage yourself? I've been using RStudio in my desktop, what do you like about using it in your browser?
My company set it up this way, at my request. I enjoy RStudio over using R over ssh (in a CLI).
The advantage of using it in a browser: it's not on my local machine! So if I run some godawful super-intensive script, my machine doesn't slow to a crawl. Also, I work with client sensitive data and we try not to hold any on our local laptops. It's really a nice solution. Now if only they supported multiple monitors...
I currently use RStudio server to do analysis from the RStudio IDE in my browser- while all the client-sensitive data and computation happens in a remote box. Allows me to play with graphs on my browser as well,.
It looks like Plotly's advantage is in sharing the plots easily.