Hmmm, that's interesting. I don't quite understand why it works, but it's a 
step in the right direction. It surprises me that there isn't an easy way to 
invoke an external script from within a job.

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On Sep 26, 2013, at 17:41 , Russell Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not that it is something that answers your immediate need, I just thought I'd 
> point you at this post where Brian Lee Yung Rowe attempts to integrate Riak 
> MapReduce and R.
> 
> http://cartesianfaith.com/2011/08/17/teaser-running-r-as-a-mapreduce-job-from-riak/
> 
> On 26 Sep 2013, at 05:33, jeffrey k eliasen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to do some image processing using OpenCV. Later I'll be doing 
>> some video processing as well. In a future project I will be using R to do 
>> deep analysis on some data I'm collecting. In all these cases, what I want 
>> to do is very simple with external languages but very hard with both Erlang 
>> and Javascript.
>> 
>> What I want to do is simply invoke an external script on each element in a 
>> bucket in the general case so that I can use advanced external tools in an 
>> arbitrary manner. I was told by someone at Basho a long time ago (about a 
>> year, which is a long time in internet years) that this could be done by 
>> invoking scripts from Erlang, but I haven't heard back from him since then 
>> and was hoping someone on the list could point me at an example 
>> demonstrating this.
>> 
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>> On Sep 26, 2013, at 10:41 , Luke Bakken <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Jeff,
>>> 
>>> Erlang and Javascript are the only two supported "in process"
>>> languages for map/reduce. Can you explain the process or provide the
>>> python you want to use and perhaps someone on the list could help out
>>> translating it to erlang?
>>> --
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>>> CSE
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Jeffrey Eliasen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I would like to write a job that invokes a python script to execute the
>>>> processing of each node in a bucket. I can't find a way to do this using
>>>> Javascript and I don't really know Erlang well enough to make this work...
>>>> is there a sample piece of code somewhere that demonstrates this?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>> 
>>>> jeff
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