RStudio is very appreciated among R users and is often the ad-hoc IDE.

By default, RStudio is injected into the environment when repo2docker detects an R environment.

It would be very nice to allow in the environment creation box to start directly with RStudio (instead of Jupyter Lab). It could be a box to tick, for instance:

[ ] start with RStudio instead of Jupyter Lab (R environments only)

There are however some caveats:

• I believe tljh-repo2docker is not aware of the content of the environment (Python, R...) so someone could tick the box even if the environment is not R-based. I'm not sure what could happen next. Probably a 404 : Not Found
• Within RStudio, user lost integration with Jupyter Hub (Hub Control Panel in the File menu) and there is not easy/visual way to go back to the control panel (although the url is very easy to manipulate).