Some of the most commonly noted benefits of the functions available in the RevoScaleR package include:
- Fast and scalable analytics; use the same functions to analyze data frames in memory and huge data sets
- A collection of commonly used analytics functions, including model predictions
- Flexible transformations and subsetting of huge data sets
- Efficient .xdf file format for storing data
- Standalone “data step” operation
- On-the-fly operations in analytic functions
- Framework for developing custom “chunking” algorithms in R