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Subject: Flume R -- any interest?
From: Dmitriy Lyubimov <dlieu.7@gmail.com>
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Hello,

I was pretty excited to learn of Google's experience of R mapping of
flume java on one of recent BARUGs. I think a lot of applications
similar to what we do in Mahout could be prototyped using flume R.

I did not quite get the details of Google implementation of R mapping,
but i am not sure if just a direct mapping from R to Crunch would be
sufficient (and, for most part, efficient). RJava/JRI and jni seem to
be a pretty terrible performer to do that directly.


on top of it, I am thinknig if this project could have a contributed
adapter to Mahout's distributed matrices, that would be just a very
good synergy.

Is there anyone interested in contributing/advising for open source
version of flume R support? Just gauging interest, Crunch list seems
like a natural place to poke.

Thanks .

-Dmitriy