R Observatory: Metrics for googleComputeEngineR version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2025-06-13. Its history is shown below.

Reason: issues were not corrected despite reminders

Details below reflect version 0.3.0, its last release before removal.

googleComputeEngineR

0.3.0Package record

R Interface with Google Compute Engine

0packages dependsuggested by 1

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark EdmondsonCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Interact with the 'Google Compute Engine' API in R. Lets you create, start and stop instances in the 'Google Cloud'. Support for preconfigured instances, with templates for common R needs.

Changes in 0.3.0

Fixed broken passing of zone and project arguments in gce_vm, gce_vm_template, gce_get_external_ip, and gce_set_metadata.
remove gce_auth() to favour auth with JSON key (#79)
Fix project-id error if numbers in project (#72)
Block users using "rstudio" as a login name
Remove defunct example from gce_schedule_docker
Support GPU images for Tensorflow, keras etc. (#101) via gce_vm_gpu() and gce_vm(template = "rstudio-gpu") (#101)
Support common instance metadata by supply gce_set_metadata(instance = "project-wide")
Support minCpuPlatform in instance creation and via gce_set_mincpuplatform() (#112)
Add ability to specify a startup-script in gce_vm_container()
Switch RStudio templates to use startup-scripts and metadata
Switch to applying a nginx proxy service to deal with port routing for templates
Add gce_startup_logs() to track whts going on when launching an instance

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Vectorise gce_vm_delete, gce_vm_stop, gce_vm_start and gce_vm_reset functions so you can pass in a list of instances
Add gce_vm_cluster() to make it easier to create clusters for future

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (source archive)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/googleComputeEngineR/googleComputeEngineR_0.3.0.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "googleComputeEngineR_0.3.0.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.3.0) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

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Documentation

In release 0.3.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 14 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 111 (16 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%21 never run
Exported functions with examples: 23%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 52%
Help pages citing references: 0%

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Also on73 r2u6 autocran129 c2d4u

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (6)

assertthat future googleAuthR httr jsonliteutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

covr googleCloudStorageR knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

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Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

googleCloudStorageR

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Mark Edmondson

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2016)

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Contributor

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-06-13
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.0
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2019-05-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 10 exports
as.container, gce_check_zone_op, gce_delete_zone_op, gce_future_install_packages, gce_get_zone_op, get_template_file, is.gce_global_operation, is.gce_instance, is.gce_region_operation, is.gce_zone_operation

added 6 exports
gce_container_logs, gce_get_metadata_project, gce_set_mincpuplatform, gce_startup_logs, gce_vm_cluster, makeDockerClusterPSOCK
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
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2017-09-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 17 exports
gce_check_gpu, gce_delete_firewall_rule, gce_delete_op, gce_get_firewall_rule, gce_get_op, gce_list_firewall_rules, gce_list_gpus, gce_list_registry, gce_make_firewall_rule, gce_make_firewall_webports, gce_metadata_env, gce_schedule_docker, gce_vm_gpu, gce_vm_logs, gce_vm_scheduler, is.gce_global_operation, is.gce_region_operation
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.0
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2016-11-19
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-11-19
Total releases: 3 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0

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Format

Edmondson, M., Chamberlain, S., Chang, W., Bengtsson, H., & Novik, J. (n.d.). googleComputeEngineR: R Interface with Google Compute Engine (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=googleComputeEngineR

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for googleComputeEngineR version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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