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Microsoft has been doing an incredible job lately. With the announcement of native support for Ubuntu binaries, I've been excited to try Microsoft products for
by fnbr 10y ago
Microsoft has been doing an incredible job lately. With the announcement of native support for Ubuntu binaries, I've been excited to try Microsoft products for the first time.
Additionally, as someone who writes a lot of bash scripts, I'm excited that I'll be able to use them across platforms. The two main reasons I use Apple computers instead of Windows are build quality & the UNIXy background of macOS, and with their recent moves, they remove the last reason as a differentiating factor.
Even their cloud offerings are exciting. I use R to do a lot of statistics work, and now Excel has support for integrating R scripts hosted on Azure. This makes it much, much, much easier to get R code working in an enterprise setting, which has been a major hurdle for me previously.
- IndianAstronaut 10y agoHave you tried SQL Server R integration? Wondering if it helps to scale up R.
- fnbr 10y agoNo, I haven't had the right project come up (I'm a statistical consultant, so my projects are largely determined by my clients). I've heard really good things about it though. It's supposed to scale well. It's on the list as something I plan to use in the near future. We've had projects in the past where we shipping Excel workbooks that had VBA written to integrate with R from the command line, which is a horrible thing to do to both Excel and R. Replacing that with a cleaner integration will be nice.