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I was looking into them yesterday, and the best source of info on what exactly REvolution R seems to be is from Wikipedia (Their sites is fraught with buzzwords
by snoman 12y ago
I was looking into them yesterday, and the best source of info on what exactly REvolution R seems to be is from Wikipedia (Their sites is fraught with buzzwords and little info). That is, it's an R distro that has multi-threaded computation as you noticed, but also has the facility to deal with datasets larger than can be stored in memory and supposedly also has some integration with Hadoop.
- mbq 12y agoTo be fair, free R+CRAN is also capable of all that stuff, not to mention that it can be easily compiled with ICC using MKL (provided that one has a license for them, but most academias have).
- snoman 12y agoOh certainly. I'm not biased one way or another, as I'm pretty ignorant of what's available. I've just been getting into the R space myself in the last few months in what free time I have available after work. My understanding of MRAN is that it's also something of a 'checkpoint' system for R package releases, so that you can distribute your r scripts with the version # of the packages used so that if anyone else runs them, they'll use the same packages and get the same results. It sounds much like the 'dll hell' of VB/C++ in the 90s.