R Server for HDInsight now generally available Blog Microsoft Azure

Today, we announced the general availability of R Server for Azure HDInsight. This gives Azure HDInsight the most comprehensive set of ML algorithms and statistical functions in the cloud that also leverages Hadoop and Spark. R is one of the most popular programming language that helps millions of data scientists solve their most challenging problems in fields ranging from computational biology to quantitative marketing. R Server for Azure HDInsight is a scale-out implementation of R integrated with Spark clusters created from HDInsight. This gives you the familiarity of the R language for machine learning while leveraging the scalability and reliability built into Spark.