newdba2017 - Thursday, August 3, 2017 11:42 AM
You don't. R is open source, free to download. You can get it and use it without even needing SQL
What you need SQL Enterprise edition for is R Server, the high-end scale server-version of R that's useful if you're doing high speed analysis of large volumes of data on a regular basis.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability