How does SAS Treat Microsoft R?

[Residentx10]

Microsoft R is a based on Revolution Analytics and it's multi threaded. How's does SAS & SAS Viya see it? Can it be retrained in SAS / SAS Viya? 

[SASKiwi · Accepted solution]

A quick Google found this: https://mran.microsoft.com/open

Microsoft R Open is an enhanced version of R 100% compatible with R 4.0.2. So anywhere R 4.0 works in SAS, I'd expect MS R Open to also work. It's available on both Windows and Linux. I expect SAS 9.4 on Windows or Linux can use MS R Open as will Viya 4 on Linux.

[Residentx10]

Thanks I used Microsoft R in the past and wanted to start using it again.

https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/rro/installation#sysreq

I had concerns about the following:

1. Can SAS work with Multithreaded R. Regular R is single-threaded.

2. Can Microsoft R models be retrained in SAS or SAS Viya. I didn't see find the answer to this.

[SASKiwi]

How are you planning to use R with SAS? If you have SAS on a PC I don't think there would be any harm in downloading MS R and just trying it. If you are using server-based SAS then getting it installed and trying it out wouldn't be much more effort. Multi-threading is probably only of use on servers which have the CPU resources to make use of it.

[Residentx10]

How are you planning to use R with SAS? Where do I start?

PCs today have enormous threads. I have HP Z8 with 56 threads. I have a HP Zbook with 16 threads.

I need to retrain models but I don't know if SAS can retrain Microsoft R models.