The Data Science Virtual Machine was featured on a recent episode of the AI Show with Seth Juarez and Gopi Kumar. If you want a quick and easy way to spin up a virtual machine with all of the data science tools you'll ever need — including R and RStudio — already installed and ready to go, this video explains what the Data Science Virtual Machine is used for and (at 21:00) how to launch one in the Azure portal.
The Data Science Virtual Machine is available in both Windows and Linux flavors. Even if you don't yet have an Azure subscription, you can test drive the DSVM for free.