Ginger Grant answers a series of questions about R and machine learning:
Question: Is it possible to run R processes in diffrent boxes other than SQL Server itself for scalability reasons?
You have the option of installing the R Server on another server. Just keep in mind that you do have to account for the additional overhead of moving all the data over the network, which needs to weigh in on your decision to move processing to a different server.
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