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Oracle R Distribution and Open Source R

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< size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Oracle provides the Oracle R Distribution, an Oracle-supported distribution of open source R. Support for Oracle R Distribution is provided to customers of the < >< size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Oracle Advanced Analytics< >< size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> option and the Oracle Big Data Appliance. The Oracle R Distribution facilitates enterprise acceptance of R, since the lack of a major corporate sponsor has made some companies concerned about fully adopting R. With the Oracle R Distribution, Oracle plans to contribute bug fixes and relevant enhancements to open source R. Oracle R Distribution also employs Intel’s Math Kernel Library (MKL) to enable optimized, multi-threaded math routines, providing relevant R functions maximum performance on Intel hardware.

< >< size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Oracle plans to actively maintain interoperability with current R versions by developing Oracle R Enterprise on the last stable point release of open source R. < size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">With the Oracle R Distribution, Oracle plans to expand support to the open source community by contributing bug fixes and relevant enhancements to open source R.  < >< size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">All of these improvements will be made publicly available to the R community. < color="#ff0000" style="color: #4b4b4b;">< style="color: #4d4d4d;">Oracle has already released to the open source community an enhanced version of ROracle, which it now maintains.< > < >Support for Oracle R Distribution, Oracle R Enterprise, and Oracle R Connector for Hadoop is provided through standard Oracle Support channels for licensed customers< >< size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">. < >< >
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