Great new package for the people that use Microsoft Azure as their platform of choice and love R. With AzureSMR you are capable to handle the following services:

• Azure Blob: List, Read and Write to Blob Services
• Azure Resources: List, Create and Delete Azure Resource. Deploy ARM templates.
• Azure VM: List, Start and Stop Azure VMs
• Azure HDI: List and Scale Azure HDInsight Clusters
• Azure Hive: Run Hive queries against a HDInsight Cluster
• Azure Spark: List and create Spark jobs/Sessions against a HDInsight Cluster(Livy)

Install it from your interactive shell:


#Install devtools
if(!require("devtools")) install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("Microsoft/AzureSMR")
library(AzureSMR)


GitHub: https://github.com/Microsoft/AzureSMR

Source: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/azuresmr.html