POSIT Cloud is used in data analysis focused courses where the R and Python scripting languages are subject of the teaching. Students are invited to POSIT course spaces at the beginning of each semester at the convenience of the instructor.
At the end of each semester, student users are removed from the course space and access to their work is restricted. Students wishing to regain access to their work after the semester has ended should submit a request to the Digital Learning Team via the HWS IT ticketing portal. Please include the instructor name as well as the course subject, number, and semester in the ticketed request.
Once access has been reinstated, students should take the following steps to preserve code and other output created while participating in a course that used POSIT cloud.
The most direct way for students to keep copies of past work and preserve it for future use is to download POSIT R projects and code to their own machines. It is strongly recommended that the student machine have R and R Studio installed so the code can be reviewed after download.
To Export and Preserve POSIT Cloud Code Projects for R:
1. Accept the invitation to re-join the recovered course space.
Note: Please review the article: Accepting the Invitation to POSIT for the steps on accessing a POSIT course space using an invitation.
2. In your course space, navigate to your project or projects
3. In the R Studio Project window, navigate to the Files window
4. In the Files window, click on the project files needed
5. In the Files window, click on the gear icon
6. On the More quick menu, select Export
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7. In the Export Files window, rename the file (optional) and click Download
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All of the selected files are now in a zipped file that can be unzipped and used on the personal machine.