Getting started

Your account and the SoilFER Lab

1. Create your account

  1. Go to Sign up and choose a username and a strong password.
  2. A trainer approves your account (usually before the training starts).
  3. Log in at the Lab.

2. Open the Lab

Click Open the Lab in the top bar, or the green Open in the SoilFER Lab button on any course page. The Lab starts your personal RStudio in the browser. The first start can take up to a minute.

What Where in the Lab
Your files (kept between sessions) ~ (home folder)
Course data (read-only, shared) ~/shared
Exercise scripts for a module ~/<labs-repo>/<module> (pulled automatically by the course button)
TipPrefer Jupyter?

Replace /rstudio/ with /lab in the address bar to use JupyterLab with R and Python kernels.

3. Google Earth Engine

Some modules use Google Earth Engine (GEE). You need your own GEE account registered for non-commercial use and linked to a Google Cloud project. Register at https://earthengine.google.com before the training, then in RStudio run:

library(rgee)
ee_Initialize(project = "your-cloud-project-id")

4. Good practice

  • Sessions stop automatically after 1 hour without activity. Your files are kept.
  • Save results in your home folder; do not write into ~/shared.
  • Download maps you want to keep from the RStudio Files pane (More → Export).
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