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Jonathan
Jonathan

Reputation: 16349

statistic engine that work with heroku

I have a heroku rails app that needs to crunch some serious numbers, and I need to use a stat library like R (worse comes to worse MatLab).

I am looking to an answer to any of these questions:

  1. Are there any fully featured Statistics package GEMs that do not require a binary?
  2. Is it possible to get the R binary as part of the heroku stack?
  3. Are there any Statistics Cloud services out there (the only one i saw was Cloudnumbers -- but in closed Beta)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 982

Answers (4)

Mike Buckbee
Mike Buckbee

Reputation: 6983

Heroku is based on Amazon's AWS EC2 Service, one possibility is to manually spin up as needed an EC2 instance with R, etc. and then use that for your number crunching.

If you want to do see if it is feasible try this AMI, which is preconfigured with R.

Upvotes: 1

Jeff
Jeff

Reputation: 1426

Two options as of today:

Upvotes: 4

Mark22
Mark22

Reputation: 11

Maybe you want to check out cloudnumbers again, they're public now. I just run a few calculations and it looks quite promising up to now (especiall that they fully setup external dependencies).

Upvotes: 1

Michael Kohl
Michael Kohl

Reputation: 66837

There's statistics2:

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/statistics2/

Edit: I should add that there's also an updated version on Github:

https://github.com/abscondment/statistics2

Upvotes: 0

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