RStudio have released version 1.0 of their eponymous R IDE. They are calling it their ...biggest [release] ever! It certainly has a number of very significant features. Integrated support for Spark Spark and R are core tools for data scientists. While Spark has an R API, support for the machine learning libraries is lagging. So, it's great to hear that RStudio now has integrated support … [Read more...]
R Notebooks
RStudio have announced R Notebooks. This adds an interactive execution model to R Markdown documents. In R Markdown documents text and code can be mixed to create active documents that perform and update analyses as they are run. However, R Markdown documents are executed in batch mode. This makes them more suitable for reporting than for teaching and investigation. With the introduction of R … [Read more...]