by Hong Ooi, senior data scientist, Microsoft Azure As of version 1.2.0 (released to CRAN late last month), it’s possible to use the AzureAuth package to login interactively to Azure from within a Shiny webapp. Because a Shiny app has separate UI and server components, some changes had to be ... [Read more...]

by Hong Ooi, senior data scientist, Microsoft Azure As of version 1.2.0 (released to CRAN late last month), it’s possible to use the AzureAuth package to login interactively to Azure from within a Shiny webapp. Because a Shiny app has separate UI and server components, some changes had to be ... [Read more...]

by Hong Ooi, senior data scientist, Microsoft Azure I'm happy to announce version 2.0 of AzureVM, a package for deploying and managing virtual machines in Azure. This is a complete rewrite of the package, with the objective of making it a truly generic and flexible tool for working with VMs and ... [Read more...]

by Hong Ooi, senior data scientist, Microsoft Azure Just a couple of announcements regarding my family of packages for working with Azure from R. First, the packages have moved from the cloudyr org on GitHub to the Azure org, thus making them "official". A (rather spartan) homepage is here, containing ... [Read more...]

By Hong Ooi and Alex Kyllo This post is to announce the availability of AzureKusto, the R interface to Azure Data Explorer (internally codenamed “Kusto”), a fast, fully managed data analytics service from Microsoft. It is available from CRAN, or you can install the development version from GitHub via devtools::... [Read more...]

By Hong Ooi and Alex Kyllo This post is to announce the availability of AzureKusto, the R interface to Azure Data Explorer (internally codenamed “Kusto”), a fast, fully managed data analytics service from Microsoft. It is available from CRAN, or you can install the development version from GitHub via devtools::... [Read more...]

by Hong Ooi, senior data scientist, Microsoft Azure The AzureR packages have now been on CRAN for a couple of months, so I thought I'd provide an update on developments in the works. First, AAD authentication has been moved into a new package, AzureAuth, so that people who just want ... [Read more...]

by Hong Ooi, senior data scientist, Microsoft Azure A few weeks ago, I introduced the AzureR family of packages for working with Azure in R. Since then, I’ve also written articles on how to use AzureRMR to interact with Azure Resource Manager, how to use AzureVM to manage virtual ... [Read more...]

It's easy to create a function in R, but what if you want to call that function from a different application, with the scale to support a large number of simultaneous requests? This article shows how you can deploy an R fitted model as a Plumber web service in Kubernetes, ... [Read more...]

This is the next article in my series on AzureR, a family of packages for working with Azure in R. I’ll give a short introduction on how to use AzureVM to manage Azure virtual machines, and in particular Data Science Virtual Machines (DSVMs). Creating a VM Creating a VM ... [Read more...]

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by Hong Ooi, senior data scientist, Microsoft Azure This post is to announce a new family of packages we have developed as part of the CloudyR project for talking to Azure from R: AzureR. As background, some of you may remember the AzureSMR package, which was written a few years ... [Read more...]

I’m delighted to announce the release of version 1.0.0 of the dplyrXdf package. dplyrXdf began as a simple (relatively speaking) backend to dplyr for Microsoft Machine Learning Server/Microsoft R Server’s Xdf file format, but has now become a broader suite of tools to ease working with Xdf files. ... [Read more...]

I’m happy to announce that version 0.10.0 beta of the dplyrXdf package is now available. You can get it from Github: install_github("RevolutionAnalytics/dplyrXdf", build_vignettes=FALSE) This is a major update to dplyrXdf that adds the following features: Support for the tidyeval framework that powers the latest version ... [Read more...]

by Hong Ooi, Sr. Data Scientist, Microsoft Version 0.90 of the dplyrXdf package has just been released. dplyrXdf is a package that brings dplyr pipelines and data transformation verbs to Microsoft R Server’s xdf files. This version includes several changes, mostly to address performance and efficiency concerns, which I’ll ... [Read more...]

The glmnetUtils package provides a collection of tools to streamline the process of fitting elastic net models with glmnet. I wrote the package after a couple of projects where I found myself writing the same boilerplate code to convert a data frame into a predictor matrix and a response vector. ... [Read more...]

by Hong Ooi, Sr. Data Scientist, Microsoft I’m pleased to announce the release of version 0.62 of the dplyrXdf package, a backend to dplyr that allows the use of pipeline syntax with Microsoft R Server’s Xdf files. This update adds a new verb (persist), fills some holes in support ... [Read more...]

The dplyr package is a popular toolkit for data transformation and manipulation. Over the last year and a half, dplyr has become a hot topic in the R community, for the way in which it streamlines and simplifies many common data manipulation tasks. Out of the box, dplyr supports data ... [Read more...]