Dear users, The company where I work is considering getting a license for Revolution Enterprise - Windows 64-bit. I'll appreciate for those familiar with the product if can share your experiences with it? In particular, how does it compare to the "free" version of R 64-bit? Thanks in advance. Regards, Lars. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
I downloaded their Academic version and installed it on a Windows virtual machine (as there is not a Mac version available). I played around with it a little bit and wasn't overly impressed. I still like my current configuration: textmate with R bundle on Mac OSX. With textmate data entry is a breeze, executing commands is a breeze, and dealing with graphics is a breeze. Also, I can easily use textmate's Sweave bundle to produce documents. In short, from the very little that I have tried using Revolution, my current configuration beats using Revolution. I just need to continue working on obtaining the R skills! On Aug 12, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Lars Bishop wrote: Dear users, The company where I work is considering getting a license for Revolution Enterprise - Windows 64-bit. I'll appreciate for those familiar with the product if can share your experiences with it? In particular, how does it compare to the "free" version of R 64-bit? Thanks in advance. Regards, Lars. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Lars Bishop <lars52r at gmail.com> wrote:> The company where I work is considering getting a license for Revolution > Enterprise - Windows 64-bit. I'll appreciate for those familiar with the > product if can share your experiences with it? In particular, how does it > compare to the "free" version of R 64-bit?(I work for Revolution Analytics.) Here are the main differences: * The GUI allows you to set breakpoints interactively and do step debugging. There's a short video of it in action here: http://bit.ly/bmAlqA * We optimize the compilation and link it against the Intel MKL libraries, which makes some linear algebra routines use all cores and run faster. More details: http://bit.ly/btLUmb * It includes the foreach, doSMP and doNWS packages, for multicore and distributed parallel computing. * It includes the RevoScaleR package (in the upcoming release, out at the end of this month), for statistical analysis of very large data sets. Details in this white paper: http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/bigdata/ (reg. req'd) * It's supported. Otherwise, the core open-source R engine is just that: R (namely, R 2.11.1 in the upcoming release), and so works exactly as you'd expect. Hope that helps, # David Smith -- David M Smith <david at revolutionanalytics.com> VP of Marketing, Revolution Analytics? http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com Tel: +1 (650) 330-0553 x205 (Palo Alto, CA, USA)