

Here are a few questions for you to think about: Also you will be able to turn off the virtual machine, so when you're not using it, nobody has access. Without that key you won't be able to login. The security will be pretty decent on any of these things. If it's $50 a month and you use it for 4 hours, that comes out to less than $1. However, you can get the most expensive machine and only have it turned on when you're using it and it won't cost very much at all. Of course, that is not going to be as nice as your desktop, so there isn't much point. Digital Ocean's cheapest machine is $5 a month. Most of the machines are affordable enough if you just turn them on and leave them on all month. I would definitely recommend an entire VM. Or you could set up a Windows cloud machine (probably at double the cost of a Linux machine, but it's up to you). If you want, you can get something like xming and just get regular RStudio. If that doesn't seem secure enough for you, you can run R from ssh.

There are a lot of different tutorials on how to set up R and RStudio Server. The best way I've found to work with R is using RStudio Server. The virtual machines that I set up with AWS work exactly the same way that the ones I set up with Digital Ocean work. Once you have a VM set up, it's not going to make much of a difference who provides it. The main difference is that Digital Ocean is much cheaper. Are there ways of fully protecting the data from others than myself (zero-knowledge encryption)?.How would pricing and performance compare to upgrading hardware?.How would I set up a cloud based R session? Can I for example access R as a software application (SaaS), or should I set up a entirely new VM (IaaS)?.

