Could you give more details about the mis-behavior of --jars for SparkR? maybe 
it's a bug.
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From: Michal Haris [michal.ha...@visualdna.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 5:31 PM
To: Sun, Rui
Cc: Michal Haris; user@spark.apache.org
Subject: Re: Including additional scala libraries in sparkR

Ok thanks. It seems that --jars is not behaving as expected - getting class not 
found for even the most simple object from my lib. But anyways, I have to do at 
least a filter transformation before collecting the HBaseRDD into R so will 
have to go the route of using scala spark shell to transform and collect and 
save into local filesystem and the visualise the file with R until custom RDD 
transformations are exposed in the SparkR API.

On 13 July 2015 at 10:27, Sun, Rui 
<rui....@intel.com<mailto:rui....@intel.com>> wrote:
Hi, Michal,

SparkR comes with a JVM backend that supports Java object instantiation, 
calling Java instance and static methods from R side. As defined in 
https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/R/pkg/R/backend.R,
newJObject() is to create an instance of a Java class;
callJMethod() is to call an instance method of a Java object;
callJStatic() is to call a static method of a Java class.

If the thing is as simple as data visualization, you can use the above 
low-level functions to create an instance of your HBASE RDD in JVM side, 
collect the data to R side, and visualize it.

However, if you want to do HBASE RDD transformation and HBASE table update, 
things are quite complex now. SparkR supports majority of RDD API (though not 
exposed publicly in 1.4 release) allowing transformation functions in R code, 
but currently it only supports RDD source from text files and SparkR Data 
Frames, so your HBASE RDDs can't be used by SparkR RDD API for further 
processing.

You can use --jars to include your scala library to be accessed by the JVM 
backend.

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From: Michal Haris 
[michal.ha...@visualdna.com<mailto:michal.ha...@visualdna.com>]
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2015 6:39 PM
To: user@spark.apache.org<mailto:user@spark.apache.org>
Subject: Including additional scala libraries in sparkR

I have spark program with a custom optimised rdd for hbase scans and updates. I 
have a small library of objects in scala to support efficient serialisation, 
partitioning etc. I would like to use R as an analysis and visualisation 
front-end. I have tried to use rJava (i.e. not using sparkR) and I got as far 
as initialising the spark context but I have encountered problems with hbase 
dependencies (HBaseConfiguration : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0) so 
tried sparkR but I can't figure out how to make my custom scala classes 
available to sparkR other than re-implementing them in R. Is there a way to 
include and invoke additional scala objects and RDDs within sparkR shell/job ? 
Something similar to additional jars and init script in normal spark 
submit/shell..

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