Microsoft R Server 9.0 now available

Microsoft R Server 9.0, Microsoft's R distribution with added big-data, in-database, and integration capabilities, was released today and is now available for download to MSDN subscribers. This latest release is built on Microsoft R Open 3.3.2, This release includes a brand new R package for machine learning: MicrosoftML. This package provides state-of-the-art, fast and scalable machine learning algorithms for common data science tasks including featurization, classification and regression. Fast linear and logistic model functions based on the Stochastic Dual Coordinate Ascent method; Fast Forests, a random forest and quantile regression forest implementation based on FastRank, an efficient implementation of the MART gradient boosting algorithm; A neural network algorithm with support for custom, multilayer network topologies and GPU acceleration; One-class anomaly detection based on support vector machines. One-class anomaly detection based on support vector machines.