Tutorial for Running a Large Number of R files using Amazon Web Services

The GitHub repository RAWStutorial is a tutorial for running a large number of R files on the cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS) via multiple Spot Instances and EC2.

by: IcterusGalbula (Mark W. Miller).

This tutorial comes complete with data files, R files and a MSWord document containing detailed instructions on:

Creating an AWS account

Installing R on AWS

Installing R packages on AWS

Using parallel processing

Installing PuTTY

Installing FileZilla

Using Spot Instances

Running R

Retrieving model results

Results are included for comparison.

The url for the index file on the GitHub repo site (Index URL)