This is a little post about how I use R when I want to make changes in my code or test things and can’t sit in front of a big screen. I have installed the following: iMac (always on R SSH/Mosh. To access my iMac from my iPhone. Just SSH works fine and you don’t need to install anything but Mosh keeps the connection when moving between networks (Wi-Fi and cellular).

I came across the idea when I saw Cédric’s gif in his tutorial The Evolution of a ggplot (Ep. 1).

        I was already saving lots of plots, in order to compare them when I changed or tried things, so I just added a couple of steps in the workflow. I save every plot as a png with ggsave inside a temp folder, add timestamp in the filename for easier sorting: