Map-reduce in R with Amazon EMR

May 27, 2010
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(This article was first published on VCASMO - drewconway, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

James Long discusses his experience performing large distributed calculations in R on Amazon's Elastic Map-reduce service. James also provides a live demonstration of using R with EMR to stochastically calculate pi.

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