Uwe, > > The opposite: It implies it is extremely flexible in the sense a user can do > anything the OS allows, e.g by installation of packages that reimplement > functions you had prohibited before. I don't see why this is related to > cloud services. In a cloud process, again, the user can do as much with R as > the OS allows, hence you may want to run it in a virtual machine in such a > case. Running a dedicated virtual machine for each user is very wasteful in case when a user interactively and occaionally issues commands to R. If a user needs only 100 MB of RAM at max, for free 3GB we will satisfy only 6 of them. The VM will eat at least 256 MB as a minimum requirement to run an OS. Consider also time to start up a VM, managing lots of VMs for each user separately which will lie somewhere on a HDD inactively taking also 1GB each (approx)
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