Making Sense of Big Data
Learn how to enable efficient file downloads on R Shiny using Amazon S3 signed URLs.
Although there are some excellent packages available in the R universe to work with S3 from R, and even though all these packages can easily be integrated with R Shiny seamlessly, I still face some interesting challenges when working with large files through R shiny. Let’s start by asking ourselves a simple question.
How do we access the files from an S3 bucket to perform data analysis?
Accessing S3 data from R
Accessing S3 data from R could never be easier, thanks to the packages at our disposal.
The aws.s3 package contains powerful functions that integrate with the S3 REST API, which allows the user…
