Microsoft R Server Tiger Team
This is the official team web log for Microsoft R Server Tiger Engineering team which is part of Data Group.
Using Certificates in R Server Operationalization for Linux
In this article, we will look into how to generate a self-signed certificate in Linux and use it for...
Author: Ramkumar Chandrasekaran, Microsoft Date: 05/19/2017
Enterprise-grade R package management made easy in SQL Server
As enterprise data scientists access SQL Server R Services to perform their in-database analytic...
Author: Te Zhang Date: 05/11/2017
Introducing Zipkin-Azure
Today in Build 2017, we released Microsoft's contribution to the Open Source Community by...
Author: Rony Chatterjee Date: 05/10/2017
Using RxOdbcData with Oracle Wallet
In Microsoft R Server you can use RxOdbcData class to connect to an ODBC DataSource, for example a...
Author: Eqbal Zaffar Date: 05/04/2017
Using RStudio Server with Microsoft R Server Parcel for Cloudera
In previous releases of Microsoft R Server, parcel installation required downloading two pre-built...
Author: Ramkumar Chandrasekaran, Microsoft Date: 04/30/2017
Stratified Splitting using rxExecBy
In Microsoft R Server 9.1, we have a new function called rxExecBy() which can be used to partition...
Author: Ramkumar Chandrasekaran, Microsoft Date: 04/23/2017
SQL Saturday 613: Building 1 million predictions per second with R-services and SQL Server 2016
SQL Saturday is round the corner again! SQL Saturday is a great event to meet the community, gather...
Author: Amit Banerjee Date: 04/12/2017
Step by Step Guide to Setup LDAPS on Windows Server
Step-by-step guide for setting up LDAPS (LDAP over SSL) The guide is split into 3 sections : Create...
Author: Ramkumar Chandrasekaran, Microsoft Date: 04/10/2017
Role Based Access Control With MRS 9.1.0
In the latest release of Microsoft R Server 9.1 we can configure role based access control (RBAC)...
Author: Siddharth Choudhary Date: 04/10/2017
Pre-trained AlexNet model for MicrosoftML's rxNeuralNet
The rxNeuralNet model in MicrosoftML package supports custom neural networks defined using the NET#...
Author: Te Zhang Date: 03/30/2017
Feature Engineering using R
Feature Engineering is paramount in building a good predictive model. It's significant to obtain a...
Author: Madhura Raju, Microsoft Date: 03/23/2017
Running MicrosoftML in SQL Server 2016
MicrosoftML is the new and exciting ML packages added to Microsoft R Server 9.0.1 which offers...
Author: Shau Phang Date: 03/22/2017
11 ways to deploy R Server on HDInsight Cluster
In this article, we will discuss 11 possible ways to deploy R Server on HDInsight Cluster. Some of...
Author: Ramkumar Chandrasekaran, Microsoft Date: 03/21/2017
Using R to perform FileSystem Operations on Azure Data Lake Store
In this article, you will learn how to use WebHDFS REST APIs in R to perform filesystem operations...
Author: Ramkumar Chandrasekaran, Microsoft Date: 03/14/2017
Getting started with GPU acceleration for MicrosoftML's rxNeuralNet
MicrosoftML's rxNeuralNet model supports GPU acceleration. To enable GPU acceleration, you need to...
Author: Te Zhang Date: 03/10/2017
Image Segmentation Using MicrosoftML
In computer vision, the goal of image segmentation is to cluster pixels into salient image regions,...
Author: Qiong Wei Date: 03/09/2017
mrsdeploy R package - ServiceOption data-dir
The mrsdeploy package provides functions for establishing a remote session in a console application...
Author: Siddharth Choudhary Date: 03/07/2017
REST Calls using PostMan for R server O16N
The Microsoft R Server operationalization REST APIs are exposed by R Server's operationalization...
Author: Siddharth Choudhary Date: 02/22/2017
Remote Spark Compute Context using PuTTY on Windows
If you are running Microsoft R Server/Microsoft R Client from a Windows computer equipped with...
Author: Ramkumar Chandrasekaran, Microsoft Date: 02/12/2017
Classify Yelp restaurant reviews' food origin with MicrosoftML
Yelp restaurant reviews are one of the most useful resources people use to pick restaurants. Reviews...
Author: Te Zhang Date: 02/09/2017
Microsoft R Server - Using Hive data source in Spark compute context
Before Microsoft R Server 9.0 release, if you needed to perform analytics on your Hive or Parquet...
Author: Eqbal Zaffar Date: 02/07/2017
Microsoft R Server Operationalization Examples
Today, more and more businesses are adopting advanced analytics for mission critical decision making...
Author: Siddharth Choudhary Date: 02/03/2017
Data Transformation in Function rxDataStep
Microsoft R Server supports four cases of R transformations, such as transformFunc, transforms...
Author: Qiong Wei Date: 01/20/2017
Predicting NYC Taxi Tips using MicrosoftML
MicrosoftML is a new package for Microsoft R Server that adds state-of-the-art algorithms and data...
Author: Ramkumar Chandrasekaran, Microsoft Date: 01/17/2017
Using MRS with Teradata: Limitations of Teradata's API and Temporary Constant Columns
Overview Microsoft R Server is capable of In-Database Analytics with Teradata, this is achieved by...
Author: Kirill Glushko, Microsoft Date: 01/06/2017
Microsoft R Server 9.0.1 is Packed with Exciting New Capabilities
Microsoft R Server has just released a feature-packed version 9.0.1. Customers can download from...
Author: Shau Phang Date: 12/30/2016
Data Exploration in XDF Files using ScaleR Functions
In this article, let us see few examples to explore data in XDF Files using ScaleR functions. For...
Author: Ramkumar Chandrasekaran, Microsoft Date: 12/28/2016
Pattern Matching on xdf files in Microsoft R Server
Pattern Matching: R uses regular expressions for pattern matching. To find patterns on non-xdf...
Author: Madhura Raju, Microsoft Date: 11/16/2016
Importing .dbf files in Microsoft R Server
The dBASE database file with the .dbf file extension is not supported by Microsoft R Server's...
Author: Madhura Raju, Microsoft Date: 11/16/2016
Performance Optimization When Using rxExec() to Parallelize Algorithms
Microsoft R Server is designed around the concept of PEMAs (Parallel External Memory Algorithms). An...
Author: Kirill Glushko, Microsoft Date: 11/14/2016
Data Wrangling in XDF files using ScaleR Functions
The RevoScaleR package provides a set of over one hundred portable, scalable, and distributable data...
Author: Ramkumar Chandrasekaran, Microsoft Date: 11/06/2016
Integrating PolyBase with Cloudera using Active Directory Authentication
This article outlines the steps to use PolyBase in SQL 2016(including R-Services) with a Cloudera...
Author: Ramkumar Chandrasekaran, Microsoft Date: 10/17/2016
Joseph Sirosh's Keynote on 1 Million Predictions Per Second
We are thrilled to announce Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of Data Group at Microsoft will...
Author: Shau Phang Date: 09/26/2016
SQL R Services optimization for concurrent execution of sp_execute_external_script
Tips and Trick for SQL R Services With SQL Server 2016, we have introduced in-database analytics by...
Author: Prabhat_Tripathi_MSFT Date: 09/20/2016
DeployR log rotation to avoid large catalina.out
Are you facing a situation where your DeployR installations catalina.out file is growing huge after...
Author: Eqbal Zaffar Date: 09/09/2016
MRS Capability Extension: Importing and Exporting Large In-Memory Data Frames
Introduction Microsoft R Server is an advanced analytics platform. Enterprise-ready, Microsoft R...
Author: Kirill Glushko, Microsoft Date: 09/08/2016
Understanding Grid Nodes and Slots in DeployR
DeployR has the concept of Grid nodes for scalable execution of R scripts. One DeployR instance can...
Author: Eqbal Zaffar Date: 09/07/2016
Enterprise Security in DeployR 8.0.5
DeployR Enterprise Security Model: DeployR Enterprise is designed to deliver analytics solutions at...
Author: Ramkumar Chandrasekaran, Microsoft Date: 08/03/2016