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gtrubetskoy on May 16, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: In-database R coming to SQL Server 2016

For what it's worth, PostgreSQL had this since 2003. http://www.joeconway.com/plr/

IMHO scripts running in a database server never work all that well - debugging is a nightmare. At least this has been my experience from trying PG plpython a few years ago.

Link to the original announcement email: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3E514A46.2040604@joecon...

hadley on May 16, 2015 [–]

R does have some pretty cool tools for after the fact debugging, like dump.frames, but few people know about them.

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