startCluster: Start an EC2 cluster.

In avantcredit/AWS.tools: R package to use Amazon Web Services

Description

Start a group of instances which serve as a compute cluster.

Usage

startCluster(ami,
             key,
             instance.count,
             instance.type,
             verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

ami	machine-id
key	securtiy key
instance.count	number of instances requested
instance.type	type of instance requested
verbose	print verbose output

Value

a cluster object encompassing the reservationID and instanceID's

Author(s)

Whit Armstrong

References

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference

Examples

## Not run: 
library(aws.tools)
cl <- startCluster(ami="ami-a531fccc",
                   key="my-ec2-key",
                   instance.count=10,
                   instance.type="t1.micro",
                   verbose=FALSE)
stopCluster(cl)

## End(Not run)

avantcredit/AWS.tools documentation built on May 11, 2019, 4:06 p.m.