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Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook

You're reading from  Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785880100
Pages 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Padma Priya Chitturi Padma Priya Chitturi
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook
Credits
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Preface
Big Data Analytics with Spark Tricky Statistics with Spark Data Analysis with Spark Clustering, Classification, and Regression Working with Spark MLlib NLP with Spark Working with Sparkling Water - H2O Data Visualization with Spark Deep Learning on Spark Working with SparkR

Interactive analysis with the SparkR shell


The entry point into SparkR is the SparkContext which connects the R program to a Spark Cluster. When working with the SparkR shell, SQLContext and SparkContext are already available. SparkR's shell provides a simple way to learn the API, as well as a powerful tool to analyze data interactively.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running Spark Cluster either in pseudo distributed mode or in one of the distributed modes, that is, standalone, YARN, or Mesos.

How to do it…

In this recipe, we’ll see how to start SparkR interactive shell using Spark 1.6.0:

  1. Start the SparkR shell by running the following in the SparkR package directory:

          /bigdata/spark-1.6.0-bin-hadoop2.6$ ./bin/sparkR --master
          spark://192.168.0.118:7077
      R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10) -- "Wooden Christmas-Tree"
      Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
      Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
      R is free software and comes with...
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