Hi
I set up R in a chroot jail for a course and it worked fine (students
were able to submit R code via a web form, which was
password-protected). I recall it taking a bit of setting up, but hard
to estimate how much of that was figuring out how to use chroot. I have
some notes, so might be able
I've not tried an automated system like you describe but I have tried to make
test scripts available that compare the output of their programs to correct
output. That way the students can check their progress as they work. In
general, I find this approach doesn't work well for grading because
Someone recently suggested building a system for automatically testing
student's R programs. They would upload them to our Virtual Learning
Environment, which would then run the code on some inputs and see if
it got the right output. If it does, the student scores points for
that course.
My first
