Mastering RStudio – Develop, Communicate, and Collaborate with R

Summary

In this chapter, you learned, step by step, how to create an AWS account to set up and launch your EC2 instance, and how to use S3 cloud storage to save your data. Next, you learned, in detail, how you can use the terminal to communicate with your EC2 instance via SSH. In this manner, we then installed and fully set up R, RStudio, and the Shiny server. Then, you learned how to manage and administrate both RStudio and the Shiny server.

Generally, there are, of course, several other good services besides Amazon AWS, such as Digital Ocean, Heroku, and others, where you can set up and launch the RStudio server in nearly the same manner and time. And, since some time, the famous concept of containerization in terms of Docker, with the related ...