by Joseph Rickert
Over the last 6 years, thousands of students and faculty have downloaded Revolution R Enterprise (RRE) from Revolution Analytics for free, making it possible for them to do statistical modeling on large data sets with the same R language used by savvy statisticians and data scientists in business and industry. In addition to this individual scholar program (ISP), Revolution Analytics launched two initiatives in 2014 to provide academic institutions and non-profit public service companies with site licenses for the nominal annual licensing fee of $999. Both the Academic Institution Program (AIP) and Public Service program (PSP) enabled qualifying institutions to install RRE on servers and Hadoop clusters without restrictions. Now, seven months after Microsoft’s acquisition of Revolution Analytics, all three of these programs are being folded into Microsoft programs that will make it even easier for individual students and institutions to get started with the newest release of RRE, now known as Microsoft R Server.
On December 31, 2015 all three programs — ISP, AIP and PSP — came to an end. ISP participants may continue to use the software they have under the terms of the original license. Institutions currently participating in Revolution Analytics’ AIP and PSP programs will be contacted by Microsoft representatives to transition them to Microsoft programs.
Microsoft R Server is available for academic use under Microsoft’s DreamSpark programs. Students can download Microsoft R Server 2016 for free via DreamSpark for Students. Universities and other qualifying academic institutions will be able to obtain licenses for Microsoft R Server 2016 as part of Microsoft’s DreamSpark for academic institutions program. Academic institutions will have two choices for participating in the DreamSpark program. DreamSpark Standard is campus-wide and includes a subset of tools including Visual Studio Professional, Windows Server, and SQL Server and is available for …read more
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