Karl Millar
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Josh Wills <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
