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I have recently set up RStudio on an AMI ec2 instance using the process generously laid out by Louis Aslet from his website. But in an embarrassing turn of events I can't access the data I need because it resides on my personal computer. I am new to cloud computing and have 0 functional knowledge of Linux, but I do know SQL, and R well. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

rcs
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mLudwig
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Have you tried the "Upload" button in the "Files" window of Rstudio?

Ben
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use scp in terminal.

To put files from your remote server

Example: if the files are located locally in ~/mylocalfolder and you want to put them in /home/rstudio/mydata you would execute in terminal:

 scp ~/mylocalfolder/*.csv ubuntu@<your address>:/home/rstudio/myData/

Note that if you want to access them under a different user, eg, rstudio, you need to change owners on the files. Use chown

To grab data from your remote server

Example: if the files are located on /home/rstudio/mydata and you want to put them locally in ~/mylocalfolder you would use 

 scp ubuntu@<your address>:/home/rstudio/myData*.Rda ~/mylocalfolder
Ricardo Saporta
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I use the RStudio AMI all the time and what works for me is to use Dropbox. I can't remember exactly how I did it but I think I may have started the shell from within RStudio and installed Dropbox from the command line.

This link has a little more info:

http://www.louisaslett.com/RStudio_AMI/#comment-1041983219

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