December 2016
Beginner to intermediate
392 pages
8h 13m
English
The entry point into SparkR is the SparkContext which connects the R program to a Spark Cluster. When working with the SparkR shell, SQLContext and SparkContext are already available. SparkR's shell provides a simple way to learn the API, as well as a powerful tool to analyze data interactively.
To step through this recipe, you will need a running Spark Cluster either in pseudo distributed mode or in one of the distributed modes, that is, standalone, YARN, or Mesos.
In this recipe, we’ll see how to start SparkR interactive shell using Spark 1.6.0:
/bigdata/spark-1.6.0-bin-hadoop2.6$ ./bin/sparkR --master ...Read now
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