Bringing R to Serverless Cloud Computing

Over the past several years, two technologies have undergirded many of the most innovative research projects and tools developed by the Urban Institute: the R programming language and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda. Despite their respective prevalence, R and Lambda have largely existed in isolation because Lambda does not natively support R. The presentation will describe efforts to address this barrier. The framework for running R code using AWS Lambda and examples of projects will be discussed.