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Welcome to the companion website for Parallel R. We're still getting setup, so please check back soon.

In the meantime, feel free to skim the text below or browse the book's O'Reilly catalog page for more details.

Idea

R is a powerful tool, indeed, but it strains in big-data scenarios. Parallel R offers a basket of recipes to help R work in a parallel, distributed manner so you can tackle large datastets.

Details

Parallel R covers more traditional strategies for boosting R, as well as some newcomers:

• Snow
• Multicore
• Parallel
• R+Hadoop (Hadoop streaming and the Java API)
• RHIPE
• Segue

Crew

Authors: Q. Ethan McCallum and Stephen Weston

Editors: Mike Loukides and Meghan Blanchette

Reviewers:

• Robert Bjornson
• Nicholas Carriero
• Jonathan Seidman
• Paul Teetor
• Ramesh Venkataramaiah
• Jed Wing