Overview: How to setup R on an EC2 instance of Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) How to setup Apache Tomcat 6.0 web server and configuring it with basic authentication so that we can view our output from R on a password … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I wanted to see see if I could setup RStudio on a micro instance on Amazon EC2.  I thought it would be nice to have my own instance running in the cloud and why not use AWS free usage tier … Continue reading → [Read more...]

In this post, I will show: - How to create an Amazon EC2 micro instance - How to login to the EC2 instance using PuTTY - How to install the R source and build it. - Use R in the … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I thought it would be fun to play around with the R package twitteR , an R API into Twitter.  I decided to take the most prominent news story of the past few days, Osama bin Laden’s death, to see … Continue reading → [Read more...]

This was my first year to attend the R/Finance conference that focuses on the use R programming in applied finance.  I was unable to get out there until mid-morning on Friday, so I missed Jeff Ryan’s tutorial on Automated Trading … Continue reading → [Read more...]