Using R on Amazon EC2 - Part 1

create-R-EC2.sh

#Create a user, home directory and set password
sudo useradd rstudio
sudo mkdir /home/rstudio
sudo passwd rstudio
sudo chmod -R 0777 /home/rstudio

#Update all files from the default state
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

#Add CRAN mirror to custom sources.list file using vi
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sources.list

#Add following line (or your favorite CRAN mirror)
deb http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/

#Update files to use CRAN mirror
#Don't worry about error message
sudo apt-get update

#Install latest version of R
#Install without verification
sudo apt-get install r-base

#Install in order to use RCurl & XML
sudo aptitude install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev