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AWS EMR bootstrap to install RStudio Server along with sparklyr

AWS EMR bootstrap to install RStudio Server along with sparklyr

How to use the bootstrap

  1. You will first have to download the gist to a file and then upload it to S3 in a bucket of your choice.
  2. Using the AWS EMR Console create a cluster and choose advanced options.
  3. In Step 1 make sure you check the Spark x.x.x checkbox if you want to make use of the sparklyr library in RStudio. You can customize the Spark version by choosing a different emr Release version.
  4. In Step 3 you can configure your bootstraps. Choose to Configure and add a Custom action
    • For the Name you can fill something like Install RStudio Server
    • For the Script location you will need to point to where you have uploaded the gist (Eg. s3://my-bucket/emr/bootstrap/install-rstudio-server.sh)