Add a prerequisites section for building docs

This puts all the install commands that need to be run in one section instead of being spread over many paragraphs

cc rxin

Author: Shivaram Venkataraman <shivaram@cs.berkeley.edu>

Closes #7912 from shivaram/docs-setup-readme and squashes the following commits:

cf7a204 [Shivaram Venkataraman] Add a prerequisites section for building docs

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diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
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@@ -8,6 +8,16 @@ Read on to learn more about viewing documentation in plain text (i.e., markdown)
 documentation yourself. Why build it yourself? So that you have the docs that corresponds to
 whichever version of Spark you currently have checked out of revision control.
 
+## Prerequisites
+The Spark documenation build uses a number of tools to build HTML docs and API docs in Scala, Python
+and R. To get started you can run the following commands
+
+    $ sudo gem install jekyll
+    $ sudo gem install jekyll-redirect-from
+    $ sudo pip install Pygments
+    $ Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("knitr", "devtools"), repos="http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/")'
+
+
 ## Generating the Documentation HTML
 
 We include the Spark documentation as part of the source (as opposed to using a hosted wiki, such as