by Joseph Rickert In a post late last year, my colleague and fellow blogger, Andrie de Vries described enhancements to the AzureML R package that makes it easy to publish R functions that consume data frames as Azure Web Services. A very nice consequence is that it is now feasible to develop predictive models in R and enable the Excel powered business analysts in your organization to use your model to generate predictions with new data. This is made possible by an Azure feature that integrates a published web service into an Excel workbook. Once you publish your R model...