Elastic-R: Collaborative Environment for Data Analysis in the Cloud

Elastic-R is a cloud-based portal, which works with R and lets users to collaborate, share and reuse functions, algorithms, R sessions; and to perform elastic distributed computing.

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Elastic-R is a new portal built using the Biocep-R platform. It enables statisticians, computational scientists, financial analysts, educators and students to use cloud resources seamlessly; to work with R engines and use their full capabilities from within simple browsers; to collaborate, share and reuse functions, algorithms, user interfaces, R sessions, servers; and to perform elastic distributed computing with any number of virtual machines to solve computationally intensive problems.

Resources:

• A tutorial on Elastic R ar user2010 conference by Karim Chine
• Elastic R tutorial (PDF) (4MB), at SC10 conference by Karim Chine
• Karim Chine, Learning Math and Statistics on the Cloud, an EC2-based Google Docs-like portal for teaching/learning collaboratively with R and Scilab, 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies