Hello, I was pretty excited to learn of Google's experience of R mapping of flume java on one of recent BARUGs. I think a lot of applications similar to what we do in Mahout could be prototyped using flume R.
I did not quite get the details of Google implementation of R mapping, but i am not sure if just a direct mapping from R to Crunch would be sufficient (and, for most part, efficient). RJava/JRI and jni seem to be a pretty terrible performer to do that directly. on top of it, I am thinknig if this project could have a contributed adapter to Mahout's distributed matrices, that would be just a very good synergy. Is there anyone interested in contributing/advising for open source version of flume R support? Just gauging interest, Crunch list seems like a natural place to poke. Thanks . -Dmitriy
