Dear All
A quick update.
I just bundled a 30Gb EBS backed AMI for Windows 64, Revolution R and R64,
Deducer,R Commander,Java SDK, Chrome, Open Office, Acrobat Reader.
The AMI can be searched as a public image (search for "ohR")
You can mail me for the admin password if you want to explore it further.
AMI ID:ami-f4b7439d
Name:ohR
Description:64bit windows, deducer,chrome,pdf,rcmdr,open office,R,Revo R
Academic 4.0
Source:837793388858/ohR
Owner:837793388858
Visibility:Public
Product Code:
State:available
Kernel ID:-
RAM Disk ID:-
Image Type:machine
Architecture:x86_64
Platform:Windows
Root Device Type:ebs
Root Device:/dev/sda1
Image Size:30 GiB
Block Devices:/dev/sda1=snap-3af4e951:30:true
Regards,
Ajay
ps- I deleted the snapshot, instead using the AMI is faster.
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Ajay Ohri <ohri2007@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>>
>> I ave created a public snapshot for use on Amazon EC2 using 64 bit
>> Windows. If you want to try R on multiple cores ,remote desktop you can
use
>> this snapshot to create copies.
>>
>> It has R, GUIs for beginners (like RCommander , Deducer- Alas rattle
>> failed due to RGtk+) and a lot of R analytical packages.
>>
>> It also has Chrome for browsing, Adobe Reader for reading help, and a
>> dataset WDI (in public downloads folder) for testing sample data.
>>
>> It also has the academic version of Revolution R Enterprise installed
on
>> it- so you can see the new XDF format in Revoscaler package for bigger
>> datasets or just play/explore it.
>>
>> The cost of using this would be 3 cents per hour payable to Amazon
(micro
>> instance). Detailed instructions on how to use a snapshot or create one
of
>> your own are on my website at
>>
http://decisionstats.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/running-r-on-amazon-ec2-windows/
>>
>> It would be interesting to see R visualizations on potentially huge
huge
>> datasets using this cloud computing R- if anyone tries it.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Ajay Ohri
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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