QA: Does RevoScaleR only work with .xdf files, or can data frames be used for analysis too?

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Revolution Analytics

Data frames can be used in many RevoScaleR functions. Smaller data sets or excerpts from big data stored in an .xdf file can be read into an R data frame, and all of R's functionality is available for data frames This example reads the first 10 rows from the CensusWorkers .xdf file into a data frame:

censusWorkers<-file.path(rxGetOption("sampleDataDir"),"CensusWorkers") 
myCensusDF <- rxReadXdf(censusWorkers,numRows = 10)

and this example compares rxLinMod and lm results using the iris data:

irisLinMod <- rxLinMod(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width, data = iris) 
summary(irisLinMod) 
irisLM <- lm(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width, data = iris, contrasts=list(Species = contr.SAS)) 
summary(irisLM)