Some of you know that I am due to finish “R for Business Analytics” for Springer by Dec 2011 and “R for Cloud Computing” by Dec 2012. Accordingly while I am busy crunching out ” R for Business Analytics” which is a corporate business analyst\s view on using #Rstats, I am gathering material for the cloud computing book too.
I have been waiting for someone like CloudNumbers.com for some time now, and I like their initial pricing structure. As scale picks up, this should only get better. As a business Intelligence analyst, I wonder if they can help set up a dedicated or private cloud too for someone who wants a data mart solution to be done.The best thing I like about this- they have a referral scheme so if someone you know wants to test it out, well it gives you some freebies too in the form of an invitation code.
- I reviewed the pricing plan and click back to the dashboard
- I clicked on start new session
- Choosing R from a very convenient interface design
- Choosing all the applications I may need
- This is a really nice feature in enabling to choose packages for R
- Finally I can choose ONLY 7.5 gb RAM in the free version
I name the session in case I want to start multiple sessions
After waiting 15 minutes, my instance is up and I type R to get the following
Note I can also see the desktop- which is a great improvement over EC2 interface for R Cloud computing on Linux. Also it shuts down on its own if I leave it running (as of now after 180 minutes) so i click shut down session
You can click this link to try and get your own cloud in the sky for free -10 hours are free for you
https://my.cloudnumbers.com/register/65E97A
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