R in a 64 bit world

by erehweb on 6/9/2015, 6:58 PM with 13 comments
  • by rxin on 6/10/2015, 2:19 AM

    Coincidentally, R on Spark (SparkR) is also announced today: http://databricks.com/blog/2015/06/09/announcing-sparkr-r-on...

    It will appear in Spark 1.4 to use R on a cluster of machines, or a single machine with multicores.

  • by iaw on 6/9/2015, 8:05 PM

    I once encountered a problem in R trying to run a mixture model that depended on some underlying Fortran code and the Fortran code couldn't handle the initial size of the value to be minimized.

    The only solution I found was to completely rewrite the code in Python to avoid the problem. I was chuckling for a while about hitting an unsolvable Fortran problem in 2014.

  • by skybrian on 6/9/2015, 11:32 PM

    While I'm not a data scientist, I have been doing Euler problems in Julia for fun and the situation seems better there, at least when it comes to the foundations.