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Big data and R
- davidcollantes 14y agoYou forgot to mention in the tittle a very important piece of information: beer! :-) (Original title of this entry was "Feed a man pizza and he will blog about your startup")
- flatfilefan 14y agonow the article suddenly makes sense to me
- paulgb 14y agoAnyone interested in processing large datasets with R should look into Julia (http://julialang.org/ http://julialang.org/). It's still new and missing some features, and it's a long ways off from the package availability that CRAN offers, but it's converging at a remarkable pace.
- flatfilefan 14y agoTL; DR?
- jessriedel 14y agoOf your four comments on HN since you created your account yesterday, two of them are "this" and "TL;DR?" http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- flatfilefan 14y agoI haven't found a rule that would forbid asking for a summary, or in this case actually if there is anything in the article the submitters wants us to learn. The article has an interesting title but the so what evaded me when I read it. the link you posted doesn't cover comments so I'm not sure what is you point?
- pjungwir 14y agoSo it looks like they're pulling their data from MySQL. Is it feasible to use R on data "big" enough that it makes an RDBMS impractical?