Series: r2lambda – Discindo

An R AWS Lambda function to download Tidytuesday datasets

In this exercise, we’ll create an AWS Lambda function that downloads the tidytuesday data set for the most recent Tuesday (or most recent Tuesday from a date of interest).

Deploy an R script as an AWS Lambda function without leaving the R console

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that lets us deploy any code as a cloud function without worrying about setting up a compute server (for example like discussed here…

How to invoke an AWS Lambda function with R and paws

In recent weeks, I have been trying to learn more about using the {paws} software development kit to interact with Amazon Web Services from R. So far, my focus was on the…

How to set up an R-based AWS Lambda to write to AWS S3 on a schedule

Use AWS Lambda to save the Tidytuesday dataset to AWS S3 every Wednesday

At the end of this tutorial, we would have created an AWS Lambda function that fetches the most-recent Tidytuesday dataset and writes it into an S3 Bucket every Wednesday.…

Test an R-based AWS lambda function locally before deploying to the cloud

Creating AWS Lambda functions from R code can be a powerful way to make our local R code available in the cloud as an on-demand serverless service. In recent weeks I’ve been…

r2lambda update to support multi-file projects and renv projects

It has been a while since I’ve had the chance to work on my {r2lambda} project. In particular, there were a couple of good points made by a user on GitHub about…