Chapter 9. R for your Organization – Managing the RStudio Server

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • How to create an Amazon AWS account
  • Using the Simple Storage Service, as our data storage system
  • Configuring and launching our Elastic Compute Cloud server instance
  • Installing the R, RStudio, and Shiny Server on our instance
  • Adjusting and managing the RStudio and Shiny server

Managing the RStudio Server

RStudio was originally designed as a web application that was to be run on a Linux-based server. Many RStudio users encounter the desktop version initially, but the server version is essential for easy administration of R and RStudio in organizations allowing users to perform expensive computations on big data, and thus, escaping the limitations ...

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