Getting started with SparkR

Now, let's explore the options to work with SparkR including shell, scripts, RStudio, and Zeppelin.

Note

All programs in this chapter are executed on CDH 5.8 VM. For other environments, file paths might change. But the concepts are the same in any environment.

Installing and configuring R

The following steps will explain how to install and configure R, and the latest version of Spark:

  1. As a first step, we need to install R on all machines in the cluster. The following exercises are tested on CDH 5.7 Quick start VM, which has the CentOS 6.5 operating system. We need to add the latest Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository to the VM, which enables you to install R. EPEL is a community-based repository project ...

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