© Matt Wiley and Joshua F. Wiley 2020
M. Wiley, J. F. WileyAdvanced R 4 Data Programming and the Cloudhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5973-3_11

11. Getting Your Cloud

Matt Wiley1  and Joshua F. Wiley2
(1)
Victoria College, Victoria, TX, USA
(2)
Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
 

Depending on your needs and uses for R, it can be convenient to have a reasonable amount of memory and processor capability. Often this power is necessary only on occasion, and it may not be cost-effective to own the hardware. This is where hosting R on the cloud may be helpful. Cloud instances bring on-demand resources that are readily scaled up or down as each situation requires. These days, there are several groups that provide such services at very reasonable ...

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