I am an avid R user and would be into it-- who gave the talk? Was it Murray Stokely?
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Director of Data Science Cloudera Twitter: @josh_wills
