Using R with Google Compute Engine
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Grant McDermott will provide a how-to guide for setting up your own server or virtual machine (VM) on the cloud with Google Compute Engine. In addition, you will learn how to install R and RStudio Server on your VM, so that you can perform your analysis in almost exactly the same user environment as you’re used to, but now with the full power of cloud-based computation at your disposal. Trust me, it will be awesome.
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Everyone attending should please try to complete the prerequisites before we start:
- Sign up for a 12-month ($300 credit) free trial with the Google Cloud Platform: https://console.cloud.google.com/freetrial
(This requires an existing Google/Gmail acount. During the course of sign-up, you should create a project that will be associated with billing (https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-projects). Don't worry, you won't be billed for anything yet — we’re using the free trial period after all — but a billable project ID is required before gaining access to the platform.)
- Download and follow the installation instructions for the Google Cloud SDK command line utility ("gcloud") here: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/.
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We'll be following this tutorial: http://grantmcdermott.com/2017/05/30/rstudio-server-compute-engine/