This is a guest post by Chris Paciorek, Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley. In this post, I’ll demonstrate that you can easily use the future package in R on a cluster of machines running in the cloud, specifically on a Kubernetes cluster. This allows you to easily doing parallel computing in R in the cloud. One advantage of doing this in the cloud is the ability to easily scale the number and type of (virtual) machines across which you run your parallel computation.

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Henrik Bengtsson

MSc CS | PhD Math Stat | Associate Professor | R Foundation | R Consortium

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