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## Basics
Spark's interactive shell provides a simple way to learn the API, as well as a powerful tool to analyze datasets interactively.
-Start the shell by running `./bin/spark-shell` in the Spark directory.
+Start the shell by running the following in the Spark directory.
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+ ./bin/spark-shell
Spark's primary abstraction is a distributed collection of items called a Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD). RDDs can be created from Hadoop InputFormats (such as HDFS files) or by transforming other RDDs. Let's make a new RDD from the text of the README file in the Spark source directory: