RHIPE stands for R and Hadoop Integrated Programming Environment. As mentioned on http://www.datadr.org/, it means "in a moment" in Greek and is a merger of R and Hadoop. It was first developed by Saptarshi Guha for his PhD thesis in the Department of Statistics at Purdue University in 2012. Currently this is carried out by the Department of Statistics team at Purdue University and other active Google discussion groups.
The RHIPE package uses the Divide and Recombine technique to perform data analytics over Big Data. In this technique, data is divided into subsets, computation is performed over those subsets by specific R analytics operations, and the output is combined. RHIPE has mainly been designed to accomplish two goals that are as follows: