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The ReliefWeb Package allows you to query ReliefWeb's API, download its output and prepare it for analysis.
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Explore deploying an application in the cloud. #20

Closed luiscape closed 10 years ago

luiscape commented 10 years ago

The idea is to allow people to run the script in the cloud and download a CSV (or zip) file directly from the cloud.

Here is an interesting walkthrough from y^hat: http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/r-in-the-cloud-part-1.html

Here is also an interesting: http://rgrossman.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/running-r-on-amazons-ec2/

luiscape commented 10 years ago

Unless I create a more complex model in R, it isn't really worth hosting it on Amazon running RStudio Server -- it's an overkill. For a simple UI I'll have to create another scraper using Python + Pandas.