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It's limited in power, but low in price: R Client provides a reduced but functional set of features from the full Microsoft R Server product R U curious?
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R server? I though R was a programming language.[^]
OK, I guess it wraps the R language? "If you've been hungering to make use of the advanced number-crunching technology"
But:
R is an interpreted language
Hmmm. Slow number crunching technology?
Marc
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The language itself is interpreted but the language is mostly an interface and environment for fast and powerful functions
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RugbyLeague wrote: The language itself is interpreted but the language is mostly an interface and environment for fast and powerful functions
Ah, suspected as much. I wonder why have this trend to taking code written probably in C and wrapping it in dumbed down duck typed scripting languages. Oh wait...
Marc
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Because most data scientists aren't competent C devs
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Actually yes - if it works better than the GNU version for Windows (which translates to: it works).
Once I needed a tool to compare a real data distribution to several standard forms to understand how to model the behaviour of a component. Almost every tool was costly or not providing that functionality, so I turned to R.
[Talking about the Windows port here]
R has little to no GUI, which is bad for a non mathematician. The help is poor and often incomplete (as in missing paragraphs incomplete) and poorly organized (mainly a loose collection of html files).
Some examples in the documentation fail to execute due to parsing errors - unsupported functionalities. The plotting capabilities are rough, insufficient and fairly difficult to use when it is needed to merge different graphics in one plot.
The speed is low and the data input capability is extremely limited, inserting 10.000 values generated from a software, in a EXTREMELY simple format ("R xxxx.xxxx" for read times and "W yyyy.yyyy" for write times, one per line, that's it) was anything but simple.
Since the GUI is useless, the plotting capabilities are old and not powerful, and the speed is lower than implementing the algorithms in C (meanining it's not useful as an automated tool) I really can't find any use for it, sadly. Also it has a very strange syntax.
[End of complaints]
How I solved my problem? Microsoft Excel. Yep, that's right. In a couple of hours, while I spent 5 days on R.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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A recent study concludes what everybody already knows: nobody reads the lengthy terms of service and privacy policies that bombard Internet users every day. Nobody understands them. They're too long, and they often don't make sense. tl;dr Where's the 'Accept' button?
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The JunoCam camera aboard NASA's Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft's July 4 arrival at Jupiter. Juno's visible-light camera was turned on six days after Juno fired its main engine and placed itself into orbit around the largest planetary inhabitant of our solar system. The first high-resolution images of the gas giant Jupiter are still a few weeks away. Totally PhotoShopped
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From the wikipedia page:
A visible light camera/telescope, included in the payload to facilitate education and public outreach. It is anticipated that it will operate for only seven orbits around Jupiter due to the planet's damaging radiation and magnetic field.
It'll be interesting to see if it lasts longer.
Marc
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Today we are happy to announce a major update to Developer Assistant! Developer Assistant now offers contextually aware web powered solutions for C++. Let Visual Studio Bing it for you
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Earlier this year, Apple announced it was working on an unscripted reality TV show about app developers. In related news: screaming heard from Steve Jobs' grave
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No spelling error ?
isn't it Planet of the Apes developers ? 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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That might be more interesting. 
TTFN - Kent
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That is reality TV show
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I like it.
The gorillas would be the management, the chimpanzees would be the developers, and the orangutans would be QA.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Lets make a Big Brother software developer edition! 20 developers enter, after a few months only one will remain.
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Microsoft today announced its new Microsoft Professional Degree program. In this beta phase, you can only get Microsoft Professional Degree in Data Science. B.Sc. in BS?
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A friend got his degree in BSBABM.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Business Management.
We, including him, still laugh about the degree initials.
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Do you get an honorary degree for putting up with, (ahem) I mean using their products for 30 years? 
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Adding MSPDDS would make my email signature the longest in the group; not counting the disclaimer.
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Yet more money going the way of yet another fairly useless piece of paper.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft Professional Degree in Data Science.
FTFY: Must Prattle about Dreadfully Dull Stuff.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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"For now you can only get BMP".
BBS = Beta Microsoft Professional.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Linus Torvalds has launched an epic, yet entertaining, rant against Linux kernel maintainers over their use of syntax in code comments. I always look forward to his nuanced and rational arguments
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Linus is a asswipe, but he's also correct (in this instance). I personally prefer the C++ style:
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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