The spark-repl is referred to as the interactive spark shell and can be run from your spark installation directory. > ./spark shell
The spark-repl ( read evaluate print loop ) is a modified version of the interactive scala repl that can be used with spark. You can learn how to use the interactive spark shell from the quick guide and screencasts number 2 and 3. http://spark.incubator.apache.org/docs/latest/quick-start.html http://spark.incubator.apache.org/documentation.html
