What's New in Oracle R Enterprise?

This section describes new features relating to installation and administration of Oracle R Enterprise. It includes the following sections:

New Features for Release 1.3.1

Oracle R Enterprise Release 1.3.1 consists of bug fixes described in Oracle R Enterprise Release Notes.

Oracle R Enterprise Release 1.3 includes these new features:

Installation and administration information has moved from Oracle R Enterprise User's Guide to Oracle R Enterprise Installation and Administration Guide (this manual).
Release 1.3 requires R 2.15.1; see R Requirement
Installation of Oracle R Distribution uses http://public-yum.oracle.com/ only.
You can now Control Memory Used by Embedded R
Deprecated Grants
Supports 64-bit Windows platforms only; see Operating System Requirement.

Oracle R Enterprise Release 1.1 includes these new features:

Support for IBM AIX: Oracle R Distribution and Oracle R Enterprise are supported on AIX 5.3 and higher.
Support for Solaris: Oracle R Distribution and Oracle R Enterprise are supported on Solaris 10 and higher for both 64-bit SPARC and 64-bit x86 (Intel) processors.
Improved mathematics libraries in R

You can now use the improved Oracle R Distribution with support for dynamically picking up either the Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) or the AMD Core Math Library (ACML) with Oracle R Enterprise.

Sun Performance Library for Solaris (SUNPERF), the high performance math library for Solaris 10, is supported on Solaris SPARC and Solaris x86.
Server runs on Windows

The Oracle R Enterprise server now runs on 64-bit and 32-bit Windows operating systems.
Support for Oracle Wallet

R scripts no longer need to have database authentication credentials in clear text. Oracle R Enterprise is integrated with Oracle Wallet for that purpose.
Improved installation

The installation scripts have been improved with more prerequisite checks and detailed error messages. Error messages provide specific instructions on remedial actions.