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Shivaram Venkataraman commented on SPARK-17904:
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Thanks all - This is a good discussion about the role of executors and package
management. The way I was thinking about this is that this could be similar to
the maven coordinates that we support in say `spark-shell` and how Spark
ensures these JAR files are loaded before execution.
On that note will be better if we take this in as an argument to
sparkR.session() ? As opposed to having a function that can be called at any
point in the middle that is
> Add a wrapper function to install R packages on each executors.
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>
> Key: SPARK-17904
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-17904
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: SparkR
> Reporter: Yanbo Liang
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> SparkR provides {{spark.lappy}} to run local R functions in distributed
> environment, and {{dapply}} to run UDF on SparkDataFrame.
> If users use third-party libraries inside of the function which was passed
> into {{spark.lappy}} or {{dapply}}, they should install required R packages
> on each executor in advance.
> To install dependent R packages on each executors and check it successfully,
> we can run similar code like following:
> (Note: The code is just for example, not the prototype of this proposal. The
> detail implementation should be discussed.)
> {code}
> rdd <- SparkR:::lapplyPartition(SparkR:::parallelize(sc, 1:2, 2L),
> install.packages("Matrix”))
> test <- function(x) { "Matrix" %in% rownames(installed.packages()) }
> rdd <- SparkR:::lapplyPartition(SparkR:::parallelize(sc, 1:2, 2L), test )
> collectRDD(rdd)
> {code}
> It’s cumbersome to run this code snippet each time when you need third-party
> library, since SparkR is an interactive analytics tools, users may call lots
> of libraries during the analytics session. In native R, users can run
> {{install.packages()}} and {{library()}} across the interactive session.
> Should we provide one API to wrapper the work mentioned above, then users can
> install dependent R packages to each executor easily?
> I propose the following API:
> {{spark.installPackages(pkgs, repos)}}
> * pkgs: the name of packages. If repos = NULL, this can be set with a
> local/hdfs path, then SparkR can install packages from local package archives.
> * repos: the base URL(s) of the repositories to use. It can be NULL to
> install from local directories.
> Since SparkR has its own library directories where to install the packages on
> each executor, so I think it will not pollute the native R environment. I'd
> like to know whether it make sense, and feel free to correct me if there is
> misunderstanding.
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