Feasibility of using Mapreduce and Hadoop for my problem
# Background #
I know what Hadoop and Mapreduce conceptually. I am planning on using them for my project (for research purpose not for production). The project involves lots of data analysis and also use of many statistical function. I thought map-reduce using R should be the best option.I am the only person involved in the project.I don't know R too.Also 

# Problem #
I wanted to know.
1)Difficulty or time consuming will it be to set up hadoop ?
2)Will it require extensive learning of R ?
3)Will writing Map Reduce for some of my analysis which I easily implemented in matlab be difficult ?
4)I need your advice and some pointers for starting this and wanted to know if its worth the try.
Feasibility of using Mapreduce and Hadoop for my problem
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# Background #
I know what Hadoop and Mapreduce conceptually. I am planning on using them for my project (for research purpose not for production). The project involves lots of data analysis and also use of many statistical function. I thought map-reduce using R should be the best option.I am the only person involved in the project.I don't know R too.Also 

# Problem #
I wanted to know.
1)Difficulty or time consuming will it be to set up hadoop ?
2)Will it require extensive learning of R ?
3)Will writing Map Reduce for some of my analysis which I easily implemented in matlab be difficult ?
4)I need your advice and some pointers for starting this and wanted to know if its worth the try.