I'm disappointed that Microsoft has targeted R for embracing and extinguishing. We hardly knew ye.
Your evidence for this is... ?
History.
Introducing the free Microsoft R Client
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#12Ugh.
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#14Christ almighty, why not just use SAS at that point. Ross Ihaka was so disappointed by Revolution's value-subtracted offerings that he disowned the entire R project.
Have you a reference for that?
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#15I am no closed to understanding what this is. Everything listed here is already part of Microsoft R Open and the client is just standard RGui: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-r/install-r-clien...
The rx algorithms are not part of MSFT R Open, but they are severely restricted in this, so I kinda fail to see the point of having it. Perhaps someone from the team can chime in and explain the reasoning behind this?
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#16In case you use Visual Studio and want to write some R code, VS now has a free+oss plug-in for it:
RTVS v0.4 video overview: https://youtu.be/k1_6XLyhHbo
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#17Christ almighty, why not just use SAS at that point. Ross Ihaka was so disappointed by Revolution's value-subtracted offerings that he disowned the entire R project.
Isn't SAS better than R?
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#19I am no closed to understanding what this is. Everything listed here is already part of Microsoft R Open and the client is just standard RGui: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-r/install-r-clien...
Microsoft R Client includes the ScaleR package (rx functions and XDF file type) for faster statistics with data up to memory size. This is larger data than R can handle, as computations are done out-of-memory. For no limits on data size, you can use Microsoft R Server, which is also available free as part of Dev Essentials http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/microsoft-r-open... , but only for development use. Microsoft R Client can also initiate computations (of unlimited size) on a remote Microsoft R Server.
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#20Christ almighty, why not just use SAS at that point. Ross Ihaka was so disappointed by Revolution's value-subtracted offerings that he disowned the entire R project.
Have you a reference for that?
I'm not sure what GP means by Ross "disowning the entire R project". Maybe it's a brain fart. But Ross does (if this is indeed him commenting on dbms2.com) want people to not use Revolution Analytics fork:
http://www.dbms2.com/2010/05/04/revolution-analytics-confuse...