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Oracle Interface Translates R to PL/SQL for Database

Jun 2, 2010
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In a move in support of R, the open-source language for statistical analysis and for those who don’t know the Oracle Database or SQL well, Oracle now has a user interface for Oracle’s Data Mining software that supports R. The interface (downloadable at no charge)is external of Oracle’s software, and consists of function wrappers that pass information between the R environment and the database as PL/SQL queries.

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