TY - BOOK AU - Ohri,A. TI - R for cloud computing: an approach for data scientists SN - 9781493917013 U1 - 004.6782 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York : PB - Springer KW - Cloud computing. KW - R (Computer program language) KW - Computer science N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 1. Introduction to R for cloud computing--- 2. An Approach for Data Scientists -- 3. Navigating the Choices in R and Cloud Computing -- 4. Setting up R on the Cloud -- 5. Using R -- 6. Using R with Data and Bigger Data -- 7. R with Cloud APIs -- 8. Securing your R Cloud -- 9. Training Literature for Cloud Computing and R-- Appendix-- References N2 - This book is aimed at industry practitioners with basic programming skills and students who want to enter analytics as a profession. Note the scope of the book is neither statistical theory nor graduate level research for statistics, but rather it is for business analytics practitioners. It will also help researchers and academics but at a practical rather than conceptual level. The R statistical software is the fastest growing analytics platform in the world, and is established in both academia and corporations for robustness, reliability and accuracy. The cloud computing paradigm is firmly established as the next generation of computing from microprocessors to desktop PCs to cloud ER -