Big data analytics to the power of R

Use R—the powerful, statistical programming language—in an enterprise-class, big data analytics platform. Microsoft R Server is your flexible choice for analyzing data at scale, building intelligent apps, and discovering valuable insights across your business.

Bring advanced analytics to your business

Create fast, predictive analytics that combine the performance and flexibility you need using the popular, open-source R language.

Get support for a full range of analytics—from exploration to analysis to visualization to modeling—while taking advantage of big data statistics, predictive modeling, and machine-learning capabilities. R Server is fully compatible with R scripts, functions, and comprehensive R archive network (CRAN) packages to analyze data at enterprise scale.

Benefits

Flexible and agile

With R Server being able to run both on-premises and in the cloud on Azure Virtual Machines, you can model on-premises and score in the cloud without the need for rewrites.

Exceptional performance

Extend your analytics performance through parallelized algorithms with multi-threading across processors and compute nodes.

Cost-effective

Keep costs contained with minimum investment required to train developers in R, a lower start-up investment and total cost of ownership, and the ability to work on commodity hardware.

Open benefits, enterprise support

Get all the benefits of the open-source R language with the enterprise security and support of Microsoft. It’s the best of both worlds.

Built for breakthrough scale

Able to scale R analytics, R Server is built to handle massive data sizes and computation on hundreds of nodes. Its big-data capable architecture includes ScaleR algorithms optimized for fast parallel execution, DistributedR parallel computing framework for managing compute resources, and ConnectR for versatile connections to data sources.

Supported R Server environments

Develop and run R models on your platform of choice

Hadoop/Apache Spark —Scale your analysis transparently by distributing work across nodes without complex programming
Teradata database—Run advanced analytics in-database for seamless data analysis
Windows—R Server for Windows ships as R Services in SQL Server 2016
Linux—Enable predictive and prescriptive analytics while making the most of your open-source investments

Get more out of R Server

Try Microsoft R Open

Support a variety of big data statistics, predictive modeling, and machine learning capabilities with Microsoft R Open, the enhanced distribution of R from Microsoft.

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Try Microsoft R Client

Work with production data locally to create models and algorithms through powerful ScaleR APIs using this free data science tool for high-performance analytics.

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Get started with R Server