I'd like it to be separate at first, but I am happy to help. Github repo? On Oct 17, 2012 2:57 PM, "Dmitriy Lyubimov" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok maybe there's a benefit to try a JRI/RJava prototype on top of > Crunch for something simple. This should both save time and prove or > disprove if Crunch via RJava integration is viable. > > On my part i can try to do it within Crunch framework or we can keep > it completely separate. > > -d > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Josh Wills <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am an avid R user and would be into it-- who gave the talk? Was it > > Murray Stokely? > > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I was pretty excited to learn of Google's experience of R mapping of > >> flume java on one of recent BARUGs. I think a lot of applications > >> similar to what we do in Mahout could be prototyped using flume R. > >> > >> I did not quite get the details of Google implementation of R mapping, > >> but i am not sure if just a direct mapping from R to Crunch would be > >> sufficient (and, for most part, efficient). RJava/JRI and jni seem to > >> be a pretty terrible performer to do that directly. > >> > >> > >> on top of it, I am thinknig if this project could have a contributed > >> adapter to Mahout's distributed matrices, that would be just a very > >> good synergy. > >> > >> Is there anyone interested in contributing/advising for open source > >> version of flume R support? Just gauging interest, Crunch list seems > >> like a natural place to poke. > >> > >> Thanks . > >> > >> -Dmitriy > > > > > > > > -- > > Director of Data Science > > Cloudera > > Twitter: @josh_wills >
