[R] EC2 - Amazon

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 6 February 2010 at 12:04, Brian Wolf wrote:
| I was  wondering if anyone had any experience or knew if its possible to 
| run R on EC2?

Yes, and apparently pretty easily. 

Ubuntu has a number of pre-build images which have the standard R packages
and a number of additional packages already installed. This should allow you
to run e.g. Rmpi out of the box over several machines.

Dirk

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