Tag: RStudio

RStudio in the cloud for dummies, 2014/2015 edition

In 2012, we presented a post showing how to run RStudio in the cloud on an Amazon server. There were 7 steps, including one with 7 sub-steps, one of which had 6 sub-sub-steps. It was still pretty easy, for what it was– an effectively free computer i…

LearningR!

I spent almost all of my blogging time last month to follow an online course in Coursera, Computing for Data Analysis (with R) by Dr. Roger  Peng of Johns Hopkins, Biostatistics Department. I already checked out bunch of Coursera courses just to take a look at what else MOOC look like, this R course was […]

RStudio in the cloud, for dummies

You can have your own cloud computing version of R, complete with RStudio. Why should you? It’s cool! Plus, there’s a lot more power out there than you can easily get on your own hardware. And, it’s R in a web page. Run it from your tablet. Run i…

managing projects using RStudio

We’re continually amazed with new developments within RStudio, the integrated developed environment for R that we highlighted previously (Among others, Andrew Gelman agrees with us about its value). The most recent addition addresses one of our earlie…

Plug for RStudio: powerful, free, and easy to use interactive development environment for R

(click for a bigger picture)As a longtime SAS user, one obstacle for me in using R professionally has been figuring out a process for saving and testing code across several work sessions and integrating code composition and execution. There are a coup…