VScode on Google Colab

This repository builds a vscode-server on Google colaboratory with additional settings for R geospatial analyses

prerequisite

ngrok token is required.

How to launch vscode-server on Google Colab?

1. Open VScode_server.ipynb on Colab
2. Run all codes one by one. User-defined password is required.
   You need the ngrok API token.
   (FOLLOWING IS NOT RECOMMENDED ACTION)
   Some other actions such as google account authorization are required if you want to store setting files in googledrive, but this make vscode-server unstable due to the slow IO.
3. Launch the produced weblink. vscode-server will be launched. Access to this with the user-defined password.

(THE FOLLOWING MAKES VSCODE-SERVER UNSTABLE AND NOT RECOMMENDED.)
4. If you would like to use R on VScode, run testRcode.R .libPaths() is a key to store all packages installation on google drive. It means you can save and load them everytime you launched your vscode-server. It will save your time to prepare the analysis environment.

References

• https://towardsdatascience.com/colab-free-gpu-ssh-visual-studio-code-server-36fe1d3c5243
• https://memo.chezo.uno/Google-Colaboratory-VS-Code-code-server-3b0f4ae8181c49ecac0c99f6e4017133
• https://github.com/naru-T/RstudioServer_on_Colab