The RevoScaleR package comes with Microsoft Machine Learning R Server and R Services. It is also available with R Client, but with some limitations discussed in Chapter 2, Overview of Microsoft Machine Learning Server and SQL Server. Given the rapid development and constant upgrades, this chapter will cover version 8.X and version 9.X-the latter is also available with SQL Server 2017. Changes and upgrades in version 9.X are not to be overlooked and will be covered as well.
The following topics are covered in this chapter:
- Limitations of R challenged
- Scalable and distributive computational environment
- Functions for data preparation
- Functions for descriptive statistics
- Functions for statistical tests and sampling
- Functions for predictive modeling
Primarily, this R package is designed to be handled in ecosystems where clients would be connecting to Microsoft...
