Not logged in
Talk
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Navigation
Main page
About
People
Publications
Teaching
Resources
Research Blog
Wiki Functions
Recent changes
Help
Licensing
Page
Discussion
Edit
View history
Editing
Statistics and Statistical Programming (Spring 2019)/Quest at Northwestern
From CommunityData
Jump to:
navigation
,
search
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
== What is Quest? == Northwestern provides students and faculty with free (limited) access to their high-performance computing cluster called Quest. For the purposes of this class, most of you will not need anything more than the [https://www.it.northwestern.edu/research/user-services/quest/analytic-nodes.html analytic nodes]. These are perfect if your data is in the tens of GB range (they request that you don't use more than 60GB of RAM). If you have a larger dataset than that, then you will need to use one of the compute nodes. You can talk with Jeremy about how to do that. == Requesting an Account == In order to use Quest, you need to request an account [https://www.it.northwestern.edu/secure/forms/research/allocation-request.html here]. Part of this process is writing a short statement about what you want to use the node for - briefly explaining your research should suffice. It is very, very likely that you will only need a Research I allocation. It will probably take a few days for your request to be approved. == Using RStudio == Login to the [https://rstudio.questanalytics.northwestern.edu/auth-sign-in Rstudio server] on Quest. This will give you a version of RStudio in your browser. Quest provides some [https://kb.northwestern.edu/quest-rstudio documentation] on basic things like uploading data, installing packages, and troubleshooting. Note that if you want to create RMarkdown documents, you will need to install a bunch of packages. When you try to create a new RMarkdown file it will tell you this and offer to install the packages.
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to CommunityData are considered to be released under the Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (see
CommunityData:Copyrights
for details). If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource.
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
To protect the wiki against automated edit spam, we kindly ask you to solve the following CAPTCHA:
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Tools
What links here
Related changes
Special pages
Page information