Chapter 10. Interactive Analytics with SparkR
Apache Spark 1.4 release added SparkR, an R package on top of Spark, which allowed data analysts and data scientists to analyze large datasets and run jobs interactively using R language on Spark platforms.
R is one of the most popular open source statistical programming languages with a huge number (over 7,000) of community-supported packages. R packages help in statistical analysis, machine learning, and visualization of data. Interactive analytics in R is limited by single-threaded processes and memory limitation, which means that R can process data sets that fit in a single computer's memory only. SparkR is an R package developed at the AMPLab of University of California, which provides features ...
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