Chapter 7 Native Distributed Computing in R

SupR

• Motivation for SupR

  Most data scientists have a favorite tool, like R or Python, for performing interactive data munging and analysis. Although they’re willing to work in other environments when they have to, data scientists tend to get very attached to their favorite tool, and are always looking to find a way to carry out whatever work they can using it. Intro‐ ducing them to a new tool that has a new syntax and a new set of patterns to learn can be challenging under the best of circumstances.^{datascientists_dont_like_new_language}

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