Wed, June 13, 2018
When working with large volumes of information, you often need a programming language — in my case, it’s R — to collect, prepare, and process data. At first, the desktop version of RStudio and the taskscheduleR package were more than enough for me to automatically run scripts on my personal computer. But over time, the number of scripts increased significantly, and all updates became dependent on whether my computer was turned on. That’s when I started thinking about installing R on a server. For my needs, I decided to use a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) server.
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