R in Action
Just ordered “R in Action” from Manning. Looking forward to learning more about it, as it comes up often when discussing solving smaller problems that what is appropriate for Apache Mahout. Hopefully, I will have time to post a review in the coming weeks.
Yes, “that’s not such a big dataset, … you could probably get by in R” seems to be heard regularly on the Mahout users list. It would be very nice to have a few shared R utilities that could interact with (and visualize) at least some of the same data formats as Mahout, e.g. Taste-style preference datamodels.