You might have two Gmail accounts, where one is your personal Gmail and the other is linked to your university email.) Needless to say, you’ll want to make sure that you use the same account when setting up the gloud utility in Step 2. Tip: Please pay proper attention to the Google/Gmail account that you use to sign up for the Cloud Platform in Step 1. Download and follow the installation instructions for the Google Cloud SDK command line utility, gcloud here.This is purely ceremonial at present - we’re using the free trial period after all - but a billable project ID is required before gaining access to the platform. During the course of sign-up, you should create a project that will be associated with billing. This requires an existing Google/Gmail acount. Sign up for a 12-month ($300 credit) free trial with the Google Cloud Platform.In addition, I’ll also show you how to install RStudio Server on your VM, so that you can perform your analysis in almost exactly the same user environment as you’re used to, but now with the full power of cloud-based computation at your disposal. This is a how-to guide for setting up a server or virtual machine (VM) with Google Compute Engine. Skip to here if you just want the post-setup summary. The most recent update was October 30, 2018. Note: This tutorial has been updated occasionally to reflect changes in the setup requirements.

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