Teradata R Package Product Overview - Teradata R Package Product Overview - Teradata R Package

The Teradata® R Package product combines the benefits of open source R language environment with the massive parallel processing capabilities of Teradata Vantage, which includes the Machine Learning Engine analytic functions and the SQL Engine in-database analytic functions. Teradata R Package allows users to develop and run R programs that take advantage of the Big Data and Machine Learning analytics capabilities of Vantage.

The Teradata R Package product is tdplyr, an R library package like other open source R packages. The package interface makes available to R users a collection of functions for analytics that reside on Vantage, so that R users can perform in-database analytics with no SQL coding required. Specifically, the tdplyr package provides functions for data manipulation and transformation, data filtering and sub-setting, and can be used in conjunction with open source R capabilities. Moreover, the tdplyr package conforms and works with the functions of the dbplyr package and most of the verbs of the dplyr package.

The Teradata R Package works over connections to:

• Teradata Vantage with Advanced SQL Engine and ML Engine
• Teradata Vantage with Advanced SQL Engine only
  For the Teradata Vantage with Advanced SQL Engine only type of connection, only Advanced SQL Engine analytic functions are accessible.