Running h2o in R script in Azure machine learning

Question

I know how to access packages in R scripts in Azure machine learning by either using the Azure supported ones or by zipping up the packages.

My problem now is that Azure machine learning does not support the h2o package and when I tried using the zipped file - it gave an error.

Has anyone figured out how to use h2o in R in Azure machine learning?

Answer 1

So since there was no reply to my question, I made some research and came up with the following:

H2O cannot be ran in a straightforward manner in Azure machine learning embedded R scripts. A workaround the problem is to consider using an Azure created environment - specially for H2O. The options available are:

1. Spinning up an H2O Artificial Intelligence Virtual Machine solution
2. Using an H2O application for HDInsight

For more reading, you can go to: http://docs.h2o.ai/h2o/latest-stable/h2o-docs/azure.html