[Rcpp-devel] R interface to the cloud?

[andre zege]

Dirk, my apologies, i accidentally sent it to rccp-devel instead of
r-devel.

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 20 January 2013 at 13:37, andre zege wrote:
> | I am trying to find some R API to the cloud service. It doesn't seem,
> very
> | surprisingly to me, that there were packages developed for that or maybe
> i am
> | missing something obvious. I found some experimental packages, one by JD
> Long,
> | that seem to have some relation to that, but nothing seems to have what
> i am
> | looking for. At the moment i am trying to find a solution for simply
> putting
> | files on the cloud and getting them from the cloud from R code. Ideally
> | something that just sends curl messages to the cloud and processes
> responses.
> | If not, then something that wraps around Java or Python cloud API.
> |
> | I'd be glad to do the work and make R interface like that myself -- i'd
> just
> | loath to re-build a bicycle, so if anything like that exists already, a
> pointer
> | would be greatly appreciated.
>
> i)   These exist, and have existed for a long time. Duncan Temple Lang
> alone is
>      probably involved in half a dozen packages related to this.  Try
> Google
>      search for RGoogleDocs, ROAuth, and more. Moreover, entire AMIs (for
>      Amazon's cloud service) can also be had, look at the BioConductor
> site.
>
> ii)  This has nothing to do with Rcpp so I suggest we stop the thread here.
>
> Cheers, Dirk
>
> --
> Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
>
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