Scala: Guide for Data Science Professionals

Building and running standalone programs

So far, we have interacted exclusively with Spark through the Spark shell. In the section that follows, we will build a standalone application and launch a Spark program either locally or on an EC2 cluster.

Running Spark applications locally

The first step is to write the build.sbt file, as you would if you were running a standard Scala script. The Spark binary that we downloaded needs to be run against Scala 2.10 (You need to compile Spark from source to run against Scala 2.11. This is not difficult to do, just follow the instructions on http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/building-spark.html#building-for-scala-211).

// build.sbt file name := "spam_mi" scalaVersion := "2.10.5" libraryDependencies ++= Seq( ...