Monday, February 27, 2012

Great recipes for setting up R/RStudio in the Amazon Cloud

I originally stated that I hadn't tried this yet. I have tried it, and it works great. Amazon's free 1-year micro instance makes this especially great for small applications. Also a very good tool to learn for big modern datasets.



One of the most useful tools is on the Bioconductor website, describing the use of a special R/Bioconductor Amazon Machine Image (AMI):


http://www.bioconductor.org/help/bioconductor-cloud-ami/


http://www.r-bloggers.com/r-ec2-rstudio-server/