(Resolved) Temporarily Disabled IDE Terminal Window

[andy_kipp]

Folks,

I wanted to let users of RStudio Cloud know that we've temporarily disabled the terminal window on RStudio Cloud. We've taken this action to address a security concern, which we hope to resolve in the near future, after which, we plan on re-enabling the terminal. In the interim we apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.

Look for further updates in this thread.

Best,
-Andy

[DarioAustralia]

I hope that it is soon because there is currently no way to import data files that are hundreds of megabytes. I read in another question that it could be done previously with wget using the terminal as a workaround to the timing-out of the file upload via the IDE's GUI.

[rensa]

Hey @DarioAustralia, could you perhaps use download.file() in conjunction with tempfile() as a workaround to retrieve your large file in the absence of a terminal? It won't work if you need to upload it from your computer, but if you can get the file somewhere on a network (or if you can make your computer accessible in a secure way), it would work

(Just be aware that anything you put in the temporary directory gets deleted when you finish your session! If you need to put the data somewhere long-term, use file.copy() after you've downloaded it!)

# generate a temporary file name
temp_file = tempfile(fileext = '.csv')
# download your big file to this temp file name.
# you can tell this fn to use wget under the hood using `method = 'wget'`
# and pass wget arguments using `extra = c()`
download.file(url = 'example.com/bigfile.csv', destfile = temp_file)
# now use temp_file to import the file into R as you would a local file

[DarioAustralia]

download.file allowed me to import the ZIP file from Dropbox. Afterwards, I used unzip to extract my Shiny application's files.

[mine]

If you're using Git with RStudio Cloud, and were using the Terminal for configuring your Git user.name and user.email, note that you can also do this in the R Console with usethis::use_git_config:

library(usethis)
use_git_config(user.name = "Jane", user.email = "jane@example.org")

[mryap]

Thanks for the head-up.

I notice the Terminal Window is not there when I logged into Rstudio cloud today.

It would be better if this announcement is show up within Rstudio Cloud itself?

[stevenolen]

The terminal window has now been restored -- thank you all for your patience!