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 # rstudio-rprofile
 
-Rprofile.site that's going to be used in our rstudio instances.
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+Rprofile.site that's going to be used in our rstudio instances.
diff --git a/Rprofile.site b/Rprofile.site
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+########### Default mirror site #############################
+local({r <- getOption("repos")
+       r["CRAN"] <- "https://cran.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/CRAN/"
+       options(repos=r)
+})
+
+Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_ALL", locale = "en_US.UTF-8")
+
+print(paste("************ Welcome",getCurrentUserName(),"************"))
+
+print(paste("Please read the following instructions to maximise the exploitation of the RStudio environment."))
+
+print(paste("*****************Software upgrades and cloud facilities*******************"))
+print(paste("if you need support or you need to install additional R packages requiring special privileges"))
+print(paste("please contact your VRE manager."))
+print(paste("R packages not requiring special privileges may also be installed directly by using the R console."))
+print(paste("However these packages will be local to the user workspace and they cannot require root access."))
+print(paste("Moreover, the packages may not be present across different sessions since they are local to one"))
+print(paste("RStudio server while each session may be allocated to a different RStudio server."))
+print(paste("This option is therefore discouraged and it should be used only for testing purposes."))
+print(paste("***********************************************"))
+
+print(paste("*****************USAGE NOTES*******************"))
+
+print(paste("*****************D4Science Workspace****************"))
+print(paste("You can access, read and write any folder of your workspace"))
+print(paste("by loading the package 'd4storagehub4R'"))
+print(paste("developed by E. Blondel, with source code available at https://github.com/eblondel/d4storagehub4R"))
+print(paste("or by saving your files to your local workspace folder"))
+print(paste("It is recommended to save any worth maintaining file into the workspace to persist it."))
+print(paste("The persistence of files stored elsewhere is not guaranteed."))
+print(paste("***********************************************"))
+
+print(paste("Using Locale Encoding:",Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE","en_US.UTF-8")));