Snowdoop, Part II
In my last post, I questioned whether the fancy Big Data processing tools such as Hadoop and Spark are really necessary for us R users. My argument was that (a) these tools tend to be difficult to...
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I mentioned last week that I would be putting together a package, based in part on my posts on Snowdoop. I’ve now done so, in a package partools, with the name alluding to the fact that they are...
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More Snowdoop Coming
In spite of the banter between Yihui and me, I’m glad to hear that he may be interested in Snowdoop, as are some others. I’m quite busy this week (finishing writing my Parallel Computation for Data...
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Snowdoop/partools Update
I’ve put together an updated version of my partools package, including Snowdoop, an alternative to MapReduce algorithms. You can download it here, version 1.0.1. To review: The idea of Snowdoop is to...
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