Oracle® R Enterprise

Release Notes

Release 1.4 for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and AIX

E40696-06

March 2014

This document contains important information that was not included in the documentation for Oracle R Enterprise Release 1.4.

This document contains these topics:

- Known Issues

- About Oracle R Distribution 3.0.1

- About Oracle R Enterprise 1.4 and Oracle Database

- Oracle R Enterprise Supporting Packages

- Oracle R Enterprise 1.4 System Requirements

- Bugs Fixed in Oracle R Enterprise 1.4

- Documentation Accessibility

Known Issues

The following known issue exists in Oracle R Enterprise 1.4:

BUG 18373587 - Oracle R Enterprise 1.4 upgrade fails to update R_HOME for embedded R

The Oracle R Enterprise 1.4 upgrade process does not update the value of R_HOME in sys.rq_config.

Problem Description

Embedded R uses the value of R_HOME specified in sys.rq_config to determine the location of R. When you upgrade to Oracle R Enterprise 1.4, the value of R_HOME is not updated. This only presents a problem if R home is not the same as it was for the earlier release of Oracle R Enterprise.

In most cases, you will not encounter this problem on Linux systems since R is installed in /usr/lib64/R/library by default on Linux..

Workaround

Update the value of R_HOME in the sys.rq_config table as follows:

sqlplus / as sysdba
EXEC sys.rqconfigset('R_HOME', 'new_path')

About Oracle R Distribution 3.0.1

R 3.0.1 is required for Oracle R Enterprise 1.4. Oracle recommends that you use Oracle R Distribution whenever possible. Oracle R Distribution 3.0.1 is supported on all platforms including 64-bit Windows.

If you intend to use open source R, refer to "Open Source R for Oracle R Enterprise" in Oracle R Enterprise Installation and Administration Guide for instructions.

About Oracle R Enterprise 1.4 and Oracle Database

Oracle R Enterprise 1.4 supports Oracle Database 11.2 and 12.1. However, Oracle Database 11.2 ships with Oracle R Enterprise 1.3.1, and Oracle Database 12.1 ships with Oracle R Enterprise 1.2. If you are using an earlier release of Oracle R Enterprise, you should upgrade to release 1.4.

Refer to:
"Upgrading Oracle R Enterpise" in Oracle R Enterprise Installation and Administration Guide for upgrade instructions.

Note:
Oracle R Enterprise does not currently support the multitenant container database (CDB) feature of Oracle Database 12c.

Oracle R Enterprise Supporting Packages

Oracle R Enterprise requires several open source R packages. In earlier releases of Oracle R Enterprise, these packages were called "client supporting" packages. In Oracle R Enterprise 1.4, these packages are simply called "supporting packages."

In Oracle R Enterprise 1.4, the supporting packages are:

ROracle 1.1-11
DBI 0.2-7
png 0.1-7
cairo 1.5-2

Oracle R Enterprise 1.4 System Requirements

Oracle R Enterprise runs on 64-bit platforms only. Both client and server components are supported on each of the platforms described in Table 1.

Table 1 Oracle R Enterprise Platform Requirements

Operating System

Hardware Platform

Description

Linux x86-64

Intel and AMD

- 64-bit Oracle Linux Release 5 update 6 through Oracle Linux 6

- 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux Release 5 update 6 through Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Oracle Linux may be running on Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Oracle Solaris

Intel and SPARC

- 64-bit Oracle Solaris 10 update 10 through Oracle Solaris 11 for both SPARC and x86-64 (Intel) platforms

- Oracle SPARC SuperCluster

- Oracle Solaris Studio (formerly Sun Studio) 12u3 or later

Oracle Solaris may be running on Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

IBM AIX

IBM

64-bit IBM AIX 5.3 or higher

Microsoft Windows

Intel

64-bit Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7

The supported configurations of Oracle R Enterprise, Oracle R Distribution, and Oracle Database are shown in Table 2.

Table 2 Oracle R Enterprise Configuration and Support Matrix

Oracle R Enterprise Version

R/Oracle R Distribution Version

Oracle Database Version (See Note)

1.0

2.13.2

11.2.0.3, 11.2.0.4, 12.1

1.1

2.13.2

11.2.0.3, 11.2.0.4, 12.1

1.2

2.15.1

11.2.0.3, 11.2.0.4, 12.1

1.3

2.15.1

11.2.0.3, 11.2.0.4, 12.1

1.3.1

2.15.1, 2.15.2, 2.15.3

11.2.0.3, 11.2.0.4, 12.1

1.4

3.0.1

11.2.0.3, 11.2.0.4, 12.1

Note:
Oracle Database versions 11.2.0.1 and 11.2.0.2 are supported on Linux if patched. See "Patching Oracle Software With OPatch" in Oracle Universal Installer and OPatch User's Guide for Windows and UNIX.

Bugs Fixed in Oracle R Enterprise 1.4

Oracle R Enterprise Release 1.4 fixes the problems listed in Table 3.

Table 3 Bugs Fixed in Oracle R Enterprise Release 1.4

Bug Number

Bug Description

15974756

MISSING AS.ORE.MATRIX METHODS FOR ORE.FRAME AND ORE.VECTOR

16018980

ADD ORE.LM/ORE.STEPWISE SUPPORT FOR MORE THAN 1000 COLUMNS

16060161

HARDCODED PASSWORD FOR RQSYS SCHEMA DOES NOT PASS SECURITY TEST ON SOME SYSTEMS

16093910

NAN VALUES ARE NOT PROPERLY HANDLED IN EMBEDDED R RELATIONAL OUTPUT

16118483

EMBEDDED R DOES NOT DELETE INSTANCE TEMPDIR() WHEN ENGINE IS SHUT DOWN

16167325

ADD ABILITY TO ADD PARALLEL HINT TO SQL QUERIES

16193682

DERIVED ORE.FRAMES ERROR OUT WITH ORE.*APPLY FUNCTIONS

16238165

ADD ARGUMENT "LIST" TO ORE.DELETE FUNCTION

16273403

ORE.LOAD DOES NOT RESTORE ORE.ODMGLM MODEL OBJECTS FULLY

16284222

ENSURE ORE INSTALLER WORKS WITH MULTIPLE DB INSTANCES ON A SINGLE NODE

16312948

ENV R_HOME COULD INTERFERE WITH ORE INSTALL.SH

16347902

ORE.SAVE FAILS TO PRESERVE TEMP DEPENDENT TABLE USED BY ORE.LM

16426951

ADD SUPPORT FOR FACTOR ANALYSIS

16465253

ADDRESS THE SCORES ARGUMENT TO THE ORESTATS::PRINCOMP METHOD

16465257

ORESTATS::PRINCOMP ADD SUPPORT FOR SUBSET ARGUMENT WHEN NO FORMULA IS SUPPLIED

16501402

THE SEP ARGUMENT ISN'T WORKING FOR THE INTERACTION METHOD

16503775

RELATIONAL OUTPUT IN EMBEDDED R DOES NOT GRACEFULLY HANDLE LONG COLUMN NAMES

16596151

EMBEDDED R REQUIRES ENVIRONMENT SETTING OF LD_LIBRARY_PATH TO FIND SUNPEF LIB

16622884

TRANSFORM AND WITHIN FUNCTIONS REQUIRE A ROW ORDERING FOR IFELSE TRANSFORMS

16635436

R:ORE: ORE 1.3.1 LIBRARY SHOULD CHECK FOR R >= 2.15.1 BEFORE LOADING

16679892

ORE.PULL ACCEPTS R DATA.FRAME AS INPUT AND RETURNS LIST

16687310

REDUCE THE FREQUENCY OF EMBEDDED R AUTO CONNECTION SETUP

16710184

ORE SCRIPT "RQ$INSTALLED.PACKAGES" ERRORS WHEN PKGS INSTALLED IN MULTIPLE LIBS

16724485

ADD A COMPLETE.CASES METHOD FOR ORE.FRAME OBJECTS

16724597

NA.OMIT METHOD FOR ORE.FRAME DOES NOT RECOGNIZE NAN AS MISSING

16724640

S.NAN METHOD FOR ORE.NUMBER DOES NOT RECOGNIZE NAN

16731768

ORE.SAVE FAILS TO SAVE ORE.ODMGLM OBJECT

16758080

MODEL.MATRIX METHOD DOES NOT HANDLE LONG TRANSFORMATIONS IN DERIVED COLUMNS

16782921

R:ORE: ADD OPTION TO DEMO_USER.SH TO CONVERT EXISTING DATABASE USER TO ORE USER

16977729

LIST AND MATRIX [<- OPERATION NOT SUPPORTED FOR ORE.FRAME

17017475

SUMMARY METHOD FOR ORE.NUMBER DOES NOT PRODUCE THE CORRECT S3 CLASS OUTPUT

17033235

ORE.SAVE FAILS FOR SOME DERIVED ORE.VECTOR OBJECTS

17033469

XML OUTPUT FROM EMBEDDED R DOES NOT PROPERLY HANDLE SPECIAL CHARACTERS

17172803

ADD SUPPORT TO WEIGHTS ARGUMENT TO ORE.LM

17199305

HIST.ORE DOES NOT SUPPORT BREAKS = NUMERIC VECTOR ARGUMENT OPTION

17249446

DBETA FUNCTION FOR ORE.NUMBER INCORRECT WHEN VALUES AT BOUNDARIES [0, 1

17277987

ORE.LM FAILS TO DETECT PROPER RANK FOR COLLINEAR MODEL WHERE # COEF > # OBS

17609337

ORE INSTALL SCRIPT: PROMPT FOR RQSYS PASSWORD AS DONE FOR RQUSER

17609402

ENABLE FULL EXPORT/IMPORT OF ORE OBJECTS BETWEEN DATABASES

17628995

ORE.ODMSVM MISSING EXTREF ON FIT.VALUES

17655037

DATASTORE - PROVIDE ABILITY TO DELETE INDIVIDUAL OBJECTS FROM DATASTORE

17655108

DATASTORE - ENABLE EASY EXPORT/IMPORT OF DATASTORE BETWEEN DB INSTANCES

17884100

R:ORE: ORE.ODMDT COST.MATRIX ARGUMENT REQUIRES DATA FRAME INSTEAD OF MATRIX

18133488

PRINCOMP THROWS ERROR WHEN SYMBOL USED IN DATA ARG EXISTS IN ORESTATS PACKAGE

18155267

ADD "PARALLEL_ENABLE" TO ALL PL/SQL SINGLE-ROW MATH FUNCTIONS

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