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title: "R Tools for VS—Predictive Analytics for C# Apps"
published_at: "2018-07-27T15:41:00+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-11-21T12:41:48+00:00"
url: "https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/post/r-tool-for-visual-studio-predictive-analytics-for-c-applications"
excerpt: "This post was updated on July 27, 2018. When Microsoft acquired Revolution Analytics in early 2015, the tech community watched to see what this would mean for the open-source R language—a mathematical and statistical language used in predictive analytics. Microsoft..."
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  - "data science"
  - "predictive analytics"
  - "R"
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# R Tools for VS—Predictive Analytics for C# Apps

[Marissa Keller Outten](https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/author/marissak)

![Image](https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/rtoolsvs.png)

This post was updated on July 27, 2018.

When Microsoft acquired Revolution Analytics in early 2015, the tech community watched to see what this would mean for the open-source R language—a mathematical and statistical language used in predictive analytics. Microsoft has promised to keep the Revolution Analytics version of R free and open-source.

In January 2016, Microsoft announced they would be renaming Revolution R to Microsoft R Server. As of 2018, it was renamed the [Microsoft Machine Learning Server](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/machine-learning-server/rebranding-microsoft-r-server)
. The rebranding coincided with some changes made at the beginning of the year. This is still available as a [free download](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/machine-learning-server/install/machine-learning-server-windows-install#download-machine-learning-server-installer%20)
 with [detailed installation instructions](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/machine-learning-server/install/machine-learning-server-windows-install%20)
. Microsoft intends to build R and Revolution Analytics products into their “broader database, big data and business intelligence offerings and to bring these benefits to customers and students” as per their [Machine Learning Blog post](https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/machinelearning/2016/01/12/making-r-the-enterprise-standard-for-cross-platform-analytics-both-on-premises-and-in-the-cloud/)
. Microsoft also stated that a new offering—Microsoft R Server Developer Edition—will have a free version as well as a commercial version coming out soon.

Out of all this exciting news, we’d like to focus on Microsoft’s reveal of new R Tools for Visual Studio. This free product from Microsoft turns Visual Studio into a powerful R development environment. R is a software environment that is an alternative to SAS and SPSS for statistical analysis and modeling, and it is excellent for building predictive models and offers support for a vast number of such models.

So what do these new R tools for Visual Studio mean to Syncfusion customers?

Syncfusion offers the ability to take predictive models trained using R and run them inside a .NET environment with no dependency on the R environment. This feat is enabled by [Syncfusion Essential Predictive Analytics](https://www.syncfusion.com/products/data-science/predictive-analytics%20)
. This [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5dB0eIR1Cg)
 walks through a regression sample from model training using R inside Visual Studio to deployment inside a C# application using Syncfusion Essential Predictive Analytics library. The Syncfusion library opens up new avenues for developers who want to take advantage of predictive models and new R tools.

If you are interested in learning more about R and how you can work with it in your Visual Studio environment, here are some links for you to check out:

- [R Tools for Visual Studio](https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/rtvs-vs.aspx) .
- [Essential Predictive Analytics](https://www.syncfusion.com/products/data-science/predictive-analytics) .
- *[R Succinctly](https://www.syncfusion.com/ebooks/rsuccinctly) ,*a free e-book on R from our Syncfusion Succinctly Series.
- *[Data Capture and Extraction with C# Succinctly](https://www.syncfusion.com/ebooks/data_capture_and_extraction_with_c_sharp_succinctly)*
- *[Statistic Fundamentals Succinctly](https://www.syncfusion.com/ebooks/statistics-fundamentals-succinctly)*