OpenCPU
is (simply put) a server implementing a RESTful web API for remotely executing R functions and retrieving results. In this tutorial I am going to showcase how OpenCPU can be installed on an EC2 instance running Ubuntu 14.04. Python and its requests package come into play for the purpose of conveniently handling HTTP communication. First and foremost thanks to the effort Jeroen Ooms put into developing OpenCPU and composing its documentation the whole process is comparatively easy and painfree.
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OAuth 2.0 for Google (Analytics) API with Python Explained
In this tutorial I am going to explain how OAuth 2.0 works and how to apply it for interacting with Google Analytics API using Python. Google provides for that purpose a Python package – which so far only supports Python 2 though … well.
OAuth2 seems to be quite a mess at first and Google’s documentation on this subject is not that well organized in my opinion. So with this article I do my best to save you the sweat I had to invest. After all it’s not that complicated anyway, as you will probably agree.