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diff --git a/R/README.md b/R/README.md index 810bfc14e9..044f95312a 100644 --- a/R/README.md +++ b/R/README.md @@ -1,11 +1,13 @@ # R on Spark SparkR is an R package that provides a light-weight frontend to use Spark from R. + ### Installing sparkR Libraries of sparkR need to be created in `$SPARK_HOME/R/lib`. This can be done by running the script `$SPARK_HOME/R/install-dev.sh`. By default the above script uses the system wide installation of R. However, this can be changed to any user installed location of R by setting the environment variable `R_HOME` the full path of the base directory where R is installed, before running install-dev.sh script. Example: + ``` # where /home/username/R is where R is installed and /home/username/R/bin contains the files R and RScript export R_HOME=/home/username/R @@ -17,6 +19,7 @@ export R_HOME=/home/username/R #### Build Spark Build Spark with [Maven](http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/building-spark.html#building-with-buildmvn) and include the `-Psparkr` profile to build the R package. For example to use the default Hadoop versions you can run + ``` build/mvn -DskipTests -Psparkr package ``` @@ -38,6 +41,7 @@ To set other options like driver memory, executor memory etc. you can pass in th #### Using SparkR from RStudio If you wish to use SparkR from RStudio or other R frontends you will need to set some environment variables which point SparkR to your Spark installation. For example + ``` # Set this to where Spark is installed Sys.setenv(SPARK_HOME="/Users/username/spark") @@ -64,13 +68,15 @@ To run one of them, use `./bin/spark-submit <filename> <args>`. For example: ./bin/spark-submit examples/src/main/r/dataframe.R -You can also run the unit-tests for SparkR by running (you need to install the [testthat](http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/testthat/index.html) package first): +You can also run the unit tests for SparkR by running. You need to install the [testthat](http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/testthat/index.html) package first: R -e 'install.packages("testthat", repos="http://cran.us.r-project.org")' ./R/run-tests.sh ### Running on YARN + The `./bin/spark-submit` can also be used to submit jobs to YARN clusters. You will need to set YARN conf dir before doing so. For example on CDH you can run + ``` export YARN_CONF_DIR=/etc/hadoop/conf ./bin/spark-submit --master yarn examples/src/main/r/dataframe.R |