For a lot of applications, running RStudio (desktop edition) locally is the best choice. But what if you want to run more complex statistical analysis or machine learning tasks that require more resources. In that case, it might be interesting for you to run a dedicated RStudio server on adequate hardware and docker offers an easy option to quickly setup and run an instance. A possible scenario is that you have remote access to a more powerful computer (Desktop or HPC). Here, I will give a simple recipe that worked great for me.
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Download German rain radar data and convert it to NetCDF (or what they should provide in the first place)
For a private project, I wanted to have a look at the German radar archive. I found that they have quasi-calibrated 5-minute precipitation data on a 1km2 grid available in the public domain. So, let’s download and process the data set, so that it is easier to use for further data analysis.
This post is part of the germanRADARanalysis project. All code is available on GitHub.
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