Comments on: Running R on Amazon’s EC2

By: ricksuarez

ricksuarez — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:07:41 +0000

Great post! Fantastic.

One question, though: when I create an instance of the AMI, I am not the superuser. For various things I want to do, I need su access. Is there a blog, page, or someplace I can start to figure out what the possibilities are? I’m pretty much a newbie to all of this, so apologies if I sound like I haven’t yet gotten my driver’s license on this stuff yet.

By: Ernesto Armijo

Ernesto Armijo — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:12:26 +0000

Hi Robert:
This post is fantastic. R in the cloud! It would be really nice if you guys could add RapidMiner to the list of software available for use under your plan. RM is extremely friendly and now it includes an add-on to do parallel processing. It would shine in Amazon ECS.

By: Tal Galili

Tal Galili — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:32:29 +0000

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By: rceed

rceed — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:50:46 +0000

they demoed it and said R version is updated regularly. A pretty nice tool i must say, lot’s of gui like features drag-drops, build-in graphics, development of packages, etc, etc, whereas command line R is a stone age comparing to this. highly recommended.

By: rceed

rceed — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:44:54 +0000

there’s a resource (they call it r-workbench or r-cloud) that is supposed to provide nice gui and cluster / cloud capabilities..
http://wwwdev.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/rcloud

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By: francescamoyse

francescamoyse — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:07:10 +0000

Hi Robert – agree with other commenters this is fun stuff .

I’m biased, but would nevertheless love to know what you and readers of this blog think of our recently launched service Monkey Analytics (http://www.monkeyanalytics.com) which abstracts the AMI management and generation detailed here and delivers Octave, Python, and now R computation in the cloud on EC2 servers.

At fhamilton – not sure if we solve your problem just yet, as we aren’t R experts (we spent more time in Matlab / Python / PV Wave in the past), but our approach with GNU Octave and Python is to wrap image / figure generation commands, spit out images, and deliver those in the browser via our web app.

(R was the number one feature request post launch, and we just got it working a few days ago).

We’re pretty excited about what we’re up to, and love being part of the discussion about how best to use cloud computing to get science computation done.

–
Francesca Moyse | Founder, Monkey Analytics | francesca@monkeyanalytics.com

By: mkhayter

mkhayter — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:02:51 +0000

Robert,
Thanks for great information.
The version of R installed as an AMI is 2.8.0
Are there any AMI public images with R release 2.9.0 or 2.9.1?