In the plotly for R book, I'm thinking of providing links to runnable versions of the examples on RStudio Cloud.
It seems like a decent way to do that would be to provide a link that opens a project and automatically opens a source file on the cloud instance. Is something like that currently possible on RStudio Cloud?
You can link to projects, but there's no way yet to link to specific files or sections of your project, or ensure specific scripts are open.
rstudio.cloud is still in alpha, so do be forgiving for a while. But it is our intention that these projects links will last for a long time.
I think it's a great idea! It could allow for the transition between textbook/course material and actual applications more smooth.
The idea has been added to our to-get-to list.