In stephlocke/Rtraining: Training Materials on R

Administer R

Infrastructure

• Windows or Linux?
• Linux!
• Because ...
• RStudio Server
• System Dependencies

Infrastructure

• High RAM
• CPU should be decent
• Physical storage can be low
• Virus scanning not a problem
• AD auth (fairly simple)
• File share availability
• Backups or scripted builds?

R

• Microsoft R or base R?
• It depends!
• Need cutting edge R & packages?
• Need extra computational speed or connectors?

R & Packages

• Regular updates required
• Unit tests of key behaviours should be done
• Dev environments always a plus!
• miniCRAN

Deployment

• Ad-hoc facilities
• Via Continuous Deployment

Next steps

• Learn some Linux fundamentals
• Determine what sort of capacity requirements are needed

stephlocke/Rtraining documentation built on May 30, 2019, 3:36 p.m.