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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 working on my package r2lambda to build and deploy AWS Lambda functions from the R console.

Last updated on 2023-02-19 3 min read AWS, R

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

Overview and motivation 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 and here).

Last updated on 2023-02-19 10 min read R, AWS

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 basics of DynamoDB.

Last updated on 2022-07-25 5 min read R

Using R and {paws} to populate DynamoDB tables #2

In our previous post we covered some basics of using the paws SDK to interact with AWS DynamoDB from R. We wrote a few simple functions to prepare R lists in the appropriate format for DynamoDB and some wrappers to put these lists as items in the remote NoSQL database.

Last updated on 2022-07-21 5 min read R

Using R and {paws} to populate DynamoDB tables

R and AWS DynamoDB In recent weeks we’ve been using AWS services for a few our projects. One of the things that came up was to populate DynamoDB tables with data from R.

Last updated on 2022-07-21 4 min read R