posted 9 years ago
Hi Kondwani,
It depends on your definition of BIG data. If you have data in the Gigabyte range (or have a larger dataset in a DMBS but only need to analyze a subset of it) then the methods in R in Action will work just fine. There is an Appendix on BiG Data (Terabyte range), but it is not the focus of the book. If you need to analyze REALLY large datasets (and not subsets of them), you can use special functions in R or turn to commercial version of R by Revolution Analytics or Oracle. Other language alternatives are Python and Julia.
Hope this help,
Rob