Apache Solr provides excellent searching capabilities on the metadata. It is also possible to go beyond a search and faceting through the integration space. As the search industry grows to the next generation, the expectations to go beyond basic search have led to Apache Solr-like software that is capable of providing excellent browsing and filtering experience. It provides basic analytical capabilities. However, for many organizations, this is not sufficient. They would like to bring in capabilities of business intelligence and analytics on top of search engines. Today, it's possible to compliment Apache Solr with such advanced analytical capabilities. We will be looking at enabling Solr integration with R.

R is an open source language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. More information about R can be found at http://www.r-project.org/. Development of R started in 1994 as an alternative to SAS, SPSS, and other proprietary statistical environments...