Hadoop installation and configuration for Microsoft R Server

Microsoft R Server is a scalable data analytics server that can be deployed as a single-user workstation, a local network of connected servers, or on a Hadoop cluster in the cloud. On Hadoop, R Server requires MapReduce, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), and Apache YARN. Optionally, Spark version 1.6-2.0 is supported for Microsoft R Server 9.1.

Platforms and Dependencies

• Supported operating systems for Microsoft R Server
• Package dependencies for Microsoft R Server installations on Linux and Hadoop

Step-by-Step

• Command line installation for any supported platform
• Install an R package parcel using Cloudera Manager
• Offline installation
• Manual package installation
• Configure R Server to operationalize R code and host analytic web services
• Uninstall Microsoft R to upgrade to newer versions

Configuration

• Adjust your Hadoop cluster configuration for R Server workloads
• Enforcing YARN queue usage on R Server for Hadoop
• Manage your R installation on Linux

Start R workloads

• Practice data import and exploration and Hadoop
• Practice data import and exploration and Spark