An R interface to the Google Cloud Compute API, for launching virtual machines
googleComputeEngineR
provides an R interface to the Google Cloud Compute Engine API, for launching virtual machines. It looks to make the deployment of cloud resources for R as painless as possible, and includes some special templates to launch R-specific resources such as RStudio, Shiny, and OpenCPU with a few lines from your local R session.
See all documentation on the googleComputeEngineR website
.Renviron
.library(googleComputeEngineR)
and auto-authenticate.vm <- gce_vm(template = "rstudio", name = "rstudio-server", username = "mark", password = "mark1234")
(or other credentials) to start up an RStudio Server.A video guide to setup and launching an RStudio server has been kindly created by Donal Phipps and is available at this link.
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will be published to CRAN, it will become a dependency for this one.CRAN version:
install.packages("googleComputeEngineR")
Development version:
if (!require("ghit")) {
install.packages("ghit")
}
ghit::install_github("cloudyr/googleComputeEngineR")