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by rbanffy 3241 days ago
> I have Windows only software that can take two weeks to complete a dataset

What kind of sadistic monster wrote this?
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tgtweak 3241 days ago
Bet you $5 it's an R script.
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angry_napkin 3240 days ago
Where advice would you offer to someone with long-running R-Scripts? Spark?
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tgtweak 3227 days ago
Spark and EMR spot instances for sure.
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na85 3241 days ago
R isn't Windows-only.
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tgtweak 3241 days ago
Some modules are windows only, I've seen many R pipelines that can only run on windows. Azure has capitalized on this.
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