Revolution Analytics, the enterprise face of R software, announced today that it will deliver R analytics on Cloudera and other Hadoop installations, The service is called RevoConnectR for Apache Hadoop. It is a collection of open-source packages that allows R programmers to access Hadoop HDFS and HBASE data stores in Apache Hadoop directly from R and write MapReduce jobs with R.
The packages are now available to download for free from the RHadoop Project on GitHub and will be commercially supported for Apache Hadoop with Revolution R Enterprise 5.0 Server for Linux. “R users can now leverage advanced analytics and data stored in Apache Hadoop to tap into more multifaceted dimensions of their data,” said Norman Nie, CEO of Revolution Analytics.