Chapter 8. Integrating Scala with R and Python
While Spark provides MLlib as a library for machine learning, in many practical situations, R or Python present a more familiar and time-tested interface for statistical computations. In particular, R's extensive statistical library includes very popular ANOVA/MANOVA methods of analyzing variance and variable dependencies/independencies, sets of statistical tests, and random number generators that are not currently present in MLlib. The interface from R to Spark is available under SparkR project. Finally, data analysts know Python's NumPy and SciPy linear algebra implementations for their efficiency as well as other time-series, optimization, and signal processing packages. With R/Python integration, ...
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