Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Service now offers R on demand
February 11, 2014
Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.
Amazon Web Services now offers a hosted version of the R programming language, providing an easy way for individuals and organizations to start and test their big-data-styled analysis projects. The cloud service is offering a copy of Revolution R Enterprise 7 on the AWS Marketplace, an online store for different packages that can be run on AWS.
Offered by Revolution Analytics, Revolution R Enterprise is a commercial package of R, an open-source functional programming language designed for statistical computing and graphics. R is being increasingly used for data analysis. Revolution R offers a version of R that can run in parallel, across multiple processors…
Users of the R service will pay US$1.25 per core per hour. A free 14-day trial is available. "We have the higher performance and higher scalability for dealing with large data sets," said Greg Todd, Revolution Analytics chief technology officer noting the generic open-source R engine runs as a single process…
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