Machine Learning with R Cookbook - Second Edition
by AshishSingh Bhatia, Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)
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Instead of building a Hadoop system on your own, you can use the Hadoop VM application provided by Cloudera (the VM is free). The QuickStart VM runs on CentOS 6.2 with a single node Apache Hadoop cluster, Hadoop Ecosystem module, and R installed. This helps you to save time, instead of requiring you to learn how to install and use Hadoop.
The QuickStart VM requires you to have a computer with a 64-bit guest OS, at least 4 GB of RAM, 3 GB of disk space, and either VMWare, VirtualBox, or KVM installed. As a result, you may not be able to use this version of VM on some computers. As an alternative, you could consider using Amazon's Elastic MapReduce instead. We will illustrate how to prepare a RHadoop environment in EMR in the ...
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