How to use Visual Studio Code in a web browser

I find this post helpful. I have set up a vscode-server on my home workstation so that I can access it from multiple client machines. The Google Chrome Desktop also looks quite interesting and worth  further investigation. 

Running sparklyr – RStudio’s R Interface to Spark on Amazon EMR

Useful tutorial.

Building Scalable Data Pipelines with Microsoft R Server and Azure Data Factory

Useful information on big data computation using Microsoft platform.

SageMathCloud

SageMathCloud provides a cloud computation platform for Julia, Python and R. It looks useful, at least for teaching purpose. It does not, however, seem to to allow the users to install third-party packages. Given that one big attraction of R comes from its huge package ecosystem, this can potentially be a problem for serious usage.

Data analysis on AWS cloud

Here is a good introduction on how to get started with data analysis on AWS cloud.

Using R on Amazon EC2

Detailed instructions can be found here.

Something about cloud computing

Here are some helpful discussions on cloud computing, with special emphasis on statistical computing.