New Year & New Updates to the Windows Data Science Virtual Machine

Microsoft R Server 9.0.1 (MRS9) developer edition, a major update to the enterprise scalable R extension from Microsoft, is now available on the VM. This version brings a lot of exciting changes including several fast ML / deep learning algorithms developed by Microsoft in a new library called Microsoft ML. There's a new architecture and interface for deploying R models and functions as web services, this follows a paradigm and interface library very similar to Azure ML operationalization. The library is called mrsdeploy. We have some R deployment samples for both notebook and R Tools for Visual Studio (RTVS) and RStudio.