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Felix Cheung commented on SPARK-10903: -------------------------------------- toDF is doing checks in preference order btw, what functions we want to automatically find the sqlContext? {code} setMethod("toDF", signature(x = "RDD"), function(x, ...) { sqlContext <- if (exists(".sparkRHivesc", envir = .sparkREnv)) { get(".sparkRHivesc", envir = .sparkREnv) } else if (exists(".sparkRSQLsc", envir = .sparkREnv)) { get(".sparkRSQLsc", envir = .sparkREnv) } else { stop("no SQL context available") } createDataFrame(sqlContext, x, ...) }) {code} > Make sqlContext global > ----------------------- > > Key: SPARK-10903 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-10903 > Project: Spark > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: SparkR > Reporter: Narine Kokhlikyan > Priority: Minor > > Make sqlContext global so that we don't have to always specify it. > e.g. createDataFrame(iris) instead of createDataFrame(sqlContext, iris) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@spark.apache.org