{"id":61662,"date":"2016-12-08T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-21T11:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:35:44","slug":"microsoft-r-server-9-released-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/08\/microsoft-r-server-9-released-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"Now available: Microsoft R Server 9.0 with support for Spark 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/machinelearning\/2016\/12\/07\/introducing-microsoft-r-server-9-0\/\">Microsoft released<\/a> Microsoft R Server (MRS) version 9.0, built on top of the latest open source R engine. This release has several exciting new capabilities, best-of-breed machine learning algorithms, simplified operationalization of R models, and support for Spark 2.0, to name a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Microsoft R V9\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FoReuLofm9I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am proud of the many MRS enhancements that our team has delivered during this calendar year, including support for Hadoop, Spark, Linux, Teradata and HDInsight, and the addition of R analytics to SQL Server 2016,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/machinelearning\/2016\/12\/07\/introducing-microsoft-r-server-9-0\/\">wrote<\/a> Nagesh Pabbisetty, Partner Director of Program Management at Microsoft. &#8220;With this latest release, you have access to a powerful tool, one that supports popular operating systems and a variety of data sources, helps you create sophisticated analytics models and deploy them in the real world, efficiently and at scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft R Server 9.0 is available for download from <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/rserver9.0.1\">MSDN<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/rserver9.0.1.myvs\">Visual Studio Dev Essentials<\/a>. 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