I believe that is done explicitly while the final API is being figured out.
For the moment you could use DataFrame read.df()
> From: csgilles...@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:26:50 +0100
> Subject: SparkR: exported functions
> To: user@spark.apache.org
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just started playing about with SparkR (Spark 1.4.1), and noticed
> that a number of the functions haven't been exported. For example,
> the textFile function
>
> https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/R/pkg/R/context.R
>
> isn't exported, i.e. the function isn't in the NAMESPACE file. This is
> obviously
> due to the ' missing in the roxygen2 directives.
>
> Is this intentional?
>
> Thanks
>
> Colin
>
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