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Are there any plans to support R scripts in the future?

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  • Andres Castaneda commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It is critical for us too. We are a very big international organization and much of our code is in R and Stata. We are literally stuck right for not being able to deploy R code. We are even thinking of translating some of our code to Python, which is not ideal at all.

  • MvR commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would also appreciate Azure Functions to directly support R code since approx. 80% of the data scientists in our company are working in R. It would make deployment way easier and prevent us from using rather unstable methods as wrapping the code in e.g. C#/R.NET or JavaScript/r-script.

    So, are there any news on that topic?

  • Jamie Smith commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a problem for my team, as we currently use R in our azure functions that we created in our test environment and will need to find an alternative going forward if you dont plan to put it back in as we cant add the extension in production.
    I'm a little bit cheezed off that you offer it at first and we begin to use it then you remove it.

  • Marc Wolfson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We have very large customers using R today and are considering moving to AWS as Lambda supports R AND Python.

  • Alexander K commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is business critical for us and so far the problem seems to be that it is way to hard to simply run a R-script on Azure the same way you would be able to execute a Python / JS script on Azure functions. I do not want to run a container / VM machine the whole time when I simply want to run 30-100 scripts that run for 10-60 seconds.

  • Ivan Ho commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    any update please? There was a R site extension available before. But I can't seem to find it now.

  • Andrew Fryer commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Running R data science functions serverless is key for those organisations which have a deep investment in skills and code in this language. Azure ML Workbench has no R support so the only way to run R in Azure is with Spark Data Bricks or use a VM with R server installed.

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