Great news . A lot of data scientists are looking for this .
> On Jan 16, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Shivaram Venkataraman > <shiva...@eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote: > > I'm happy to announce the developer preview of SparkR, an R frontend > for Spark. SparkR presents Spark's API in R and allows you to write > code in R and run the computation on a Spark cluster. You can try out > SparkR today by installing it from our github repo at > https://github.com/amplab-extras/SparkR-pkg . > > Right now SparkR is available as a standalone package that can be > installed to run on an existing Spark installation. Note that SparkR > requires Spark >= 0.9 and the default build uses the recent 0.9 > release candidate. In the future we will consider merging this with > Apache Spark. > > More details about SparkR and examples of SparkR code can be found at > http://amplab-extras.github.io/SparkR-pkg. I would like to thank > Zongheng Yang, Matei Zaharia and Matt Massie for their contributions > and help in developing SparkR. > > Comments and pull requests are welcome on github. > > Thanks > Shivaram
