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Connecting to the PostgreSQL database on AWS

In this section, we are going to talk about how to connect a PostgreSQL database on AWS by using the RPostgreSQL library. If you don't have this library on your R environment, you can install it by using the following command:

install.packages("RPostgreSQL")

Sign into your AWS account, and click Instances from the left menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

Dashboard for an RDS Instance, which is called development

Scroll down to the Details section and then find the endpoint:

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