Running R and packages on GCP cloud function [closed]

Question

I have been using AWS Lambda to execute some R code by packaging the dependencies (CRAN Packages) and deploying it along with AWS Lambda. This helps me parrallelise running a small chunk of R code over huge set of data compared to running it on an instance. I have referred to this article GENOMICS ON AWS LAMBDA The Lambda executes using RPY2 on Python.

I am exploring possibility of running the R code on Google Cloud Functions as I am using Big Query for querying some data.

I see that Google Cloud Functions now supports only NodeJS. There are few ways to execute R script from NodeJS. NPM Stackoverflow

But I need to package all the necessary packages to run my R code also. On AWS I did it by using a AWS AMI to install all R packages then create a Zip which would get deployed.

I wonder if someone has tried running R code with packages on Google Cloud functions.

Answer 1

I'd consider using AppEngine, or containers, for your task rather than CloudFunctions. There are some suggestions for how to do it here: http://code.markedmondson.me/4-ways-schedule-r-scripts-on-google-cloud-platform/ and on Compute Engine here: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/running-r-at-scale