Deploy R Scripts as AWS Lambda Functions • r2lambda

The goal of r2lambda is to make it easier to go from an R script to a deployed AWS Lambda function.

System requirements

r2lambda calls two programs outside R. They are the same on Linux, macOS and Windows; only how you install them differs.

Docker with the buildx plugin, to build, run and push images. On macOS and Windows, install Docker Desktop, which includes buildx; on Windows, use its default Linux containers. On Linux, install Docker Engine and the buildx plugin, which some distributions package separately, e.g. docker-buildx. The docker command must be on the PATH and the Docker daemon must be running.
curl 7.71 or later, used by test_lambda() to call the local container. macOS and current Windows 10 and 11 include it; on Linux, install it with your package manager. Check the version with curl --version.

Installation

You can install the released version of r2lambda from CRAN with:

install.packages("r2lambda")

You can install the development version of r2lambda from GitHub with:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("discindo/ggindex")

Setup

You need an AWS account. build_lambda() creates the ECR repository for the image, and deploy_lambda() creates an IAM role and the Lambda function.

r2lambda assumes credentials for connecting to AWS services are available in the R session. This can be done via an .Renviron file that should set environmental variables like so:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = "YOUR AWS ACCESS KEY ID"
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = "YOUR AWS SECRET ACCESS KEY"
AWS_PROFILE = "YOUR AWS PROFILE"
AWS_REGION = "YOUR AWS REGION"

But since r2lambda uses paws under the hood, all authentication methods supported by paws are available in r2lambda. See here for details on setting credentials, region, profile, etc.

Example

Build an image from parity.R, an example runtime script installed with the package, test it locally, deploy it, invoke it, and delete it:

library(r2lambda)

build_lambda(
  tag = "parity1",
  runtime_function = "parity",
  runtime_path = system.file("parity.R", package = "r2lambda"),
  renvlock_path = system.file("renv.lock", package = "r2lambda")
)

test_lambda(tag = "parity1", payload = list(number = 2))

deploy_lambda(tag = "parity1", Timeout = 30)

invoke_lambda(
  function_name = "parity1",
  invocation_type = "RequestResponse",
  payload = list(number = 2)
)
#> Lambda response payload:
#> {"parity":"even"}

delete_lambda("parity1")

Get started explains each step and its options, including IAM policies, schedules and multi-file projects. The articles show complete examples.

Code of Conduct

Please note that the r2lambda project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.