Practical Predictive Analytics

Running the code

After loading the notebook, a series of code 'chunks' will appear. This particular notebook is an R type notebook, that is, by default, code lines can be R commands, SparkR commands, or special Databricks commands (such as display).

We will see later that we can have different cells for SQL commands (notebooks starting with %sql) or even intermix Python (%python) or scala code (%scala).

to run the contents of any particular code chunk you can use the folowingkeyboard sequence:

Alternatively, use can use the run cell icon (the first triangle icon):

Now that we now how to run individual code chunks, we will begin by running ...