Integrating R with Reporting Services

Without a doubt, R is the most popular language among data statisticians and data miners for statistical computing and graphics. It is an open-source language and it provides highly extensible statistical and graphical techniques such as time series analysis, classifications and clustering for data analysis. R is not a new language; its history goes back to 1992. However, the beta version was released in 2000 but R became more popular with a high demand in recent years.

Realizing the importance of R, Microsoft introduced SQL Server R Services with SQL Server 2016. It extends the SQL Server platform, integrating R language with SQL Server, allowing us to analyse data in the database using richest and powerful ...

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