R-at-Microsoft

In 2015, Microsoft acquired the R-based software startup Revolution Analytics, which spurred Microsoft's investment in R and, ultimately, in open source generally. In this talk, I'll review the history of R at Microsoft, and survey the landscape of Microsoft products than now integrate with R.

Slides

Presented at Why R Webinars, December 10 2020. Slides, video

Resources

Azure Custom Functions R tutorial: https://aka.ms/custom-handler-R

MLOPS in R: https://github.com/revodavid/mlops-r-gha

R in Azure (Microsoft Docs): https://aka.ms/R-in-Azure

AzureR: https://github.com/Azure/AzureR

Microsoft support of R: MRAN, Microsoft ML Server, SQL Server, Power BI, Azure Databricks, Azure HDinsight, Azure Data Science VM, Azure ML