Let’s go to the AWS webpage and create the account. However, some products - including the one we will use - are free. Amazon Web Service “provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis”. So, follow this short instructions, and you can close your laptop and have your script running for you somewhere else! Step-by-step tutorial (1) Create an AWS accountįirst of all, we need an AWS account. If you do not trust me, most material comes from here, but it is not explained step-by-step, some information are possibly not relevant for a non-expert (as myself) and, mostly, the AWS interface has been changed from when the page was written. However, I just found out that launching your RStudio script on Amazon Web Service ( AWS) is quite easy (and it is free).Īs the information needed is scattered on the web, I put together a short tutorial. Sometimes - as it happens to me now, running this individual-based model - you do not have this option. If you are lucky, you may have access to a cluster, or a remote computer, where you can run your script. Here a situation that may have occurred to some of you: your R script (a model analysing a big dataset, a simulation where you test many parameter combinations) needs hours to run.

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